EPISODE NOTES

After over two decades as a journalist, including ten years covering terrorism and disasters for TIME Magazine, Amanda Ripley thought she understood conflict. But when momentum started to build around the candidacy of Donald Trump, she questioned what she thought she knew. Ripley interviewed psychologists, mediators, and people who had made it out of seemingly intractable conflicts for her book, High Conflict: Why We Get Stuck and How We Get Out.  In this conversation with host Jamil Simon, she shares insights about how journalists can change the way they cover conflict, in service of the public good.

Order Amanda Ripley’s book, High Conflict: Why We Get Stuck and How We Get Out. Listen to her podcast How To! from Slate. Watch Amanada’s talk on High Conflict for The Alliance for Peacebuilding.