{"id":3503318,"date":"2024-09-11T21:49:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T21:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?p=3503318"},"modified":"2025-05-10T00:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T00:54:56","slug":"healing-a-polarized-world-jennifer-mccoy-on-creating-unity-from-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2024-09-11\/healing-a-polarized-world-jennifer-mccoy-on-creating-unity-from-division\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHealing A Polarized World\u201d: Jennifer McCoy On Creating Unity From Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journalist and podcaster Rachel Donald speaks with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/people\/jennifer-mccoy?lang=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jennifer McCoy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, professor of political science at Georgia State University and nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on pernicious polarization in the U.S. and across the planet. They discuss the influence of \u201cpolitical entrepreneurs\u201d and the implications of a world facing increasing resource constraints, which can exacerbate polarization and conflict within and between nations. Professor McCoy offers examples of nations that overcame pernicious polarization and points to \u201cwin-win\u201d strategies for navigating the 21st century\u2019s challenges.<\/span><\/p><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-92c8a4b5\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Here is a preview of the interview. The full video is available to Resilience+ members only.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jennifer McCoy Interview Clip\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1007846207?h=5a9dc8c8eb&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"resp-content-preview-message\">\r\n\t<h2>See more at Resilience+<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>Log in&mdash;or sign up for free&mdash;to see the rest of this post at Resilience+, where you can get first-hand access to events with experts, facilitated discussions, and educational resources.<\/p>\r\n\t<a class=\"res-btn-yellow\" href=\"\/enter\/\">Log In or Sign Up<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer McCoy, professor of political science at Georgia State University and nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, discusses the influence of \u201cpolitical entrepreneurs\u201d and the implications of a world facing increasing resource constraints, which can exacerbate polarization and conflict within and between nations. Professor McCoy offers examples of nations that overcame pernicious polarization and points to \u201cwin-win\u201d strategies for navigating the 21st century\u2019s challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128248,"featured_media":3503319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[252007,79720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3503318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resilience-plus","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3512759,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503318\/revisions\/3512759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3503319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}