Thread by @keikoinboston

1. I expect that we’re looking at weeks if not months of protests around the country given that convergence of last Sunday's fatal officer-involved shooting in Minnesota, the Derek Chauvin trial coming to a close, and other fatal officer-involved shootings in the past week.

2. I wrote this thread last summer on how to evaluate protest events and movements to help people decide if they should participate or donate money. The thread is really long and you’ll need to click “Show replies” to get to the end.

https://twitter.com/keikoinboston/status/1287919610579374081

3. Activists and police are trapped in the vortex of “high conflict”, a type of conflict @amandaripley’s new book explains.

https://twitter.com/keikoinboston/status/1381417533518053378

4. High conflict seems akin to what extremism researchers refer to as interactive escalation an mutual radicalization. Nothing gets solved in this state. Conflicts take on a life of their own and become self-perpetuating.

https://twitter.com/keikoinboston/status/1139361964084355072

5. While many people do go out and protest peacefully, sometimes those peaceful protests give cover to violent opportunists who wreak havoc on neighborhoods and small and large businesses alike.

https://twitter.com/keikoinboston/status/1383236131257393155

6. Violent protests in the 1960s likely caused the opposite effect of what protesters said they wanted.

They are unlikely to be more effective now.

https://twitter.com/keikoinboston/status/1266955037097504773

7. There is too much assuming and not enough listening. On all sides.

time.com/5955632/good-c…

8. We won’t be able to move forward if people to continue to follow the lead of conflict entrepreneurs who fuel high conflict by demonizing people on “the other side” and start asking genuinely curious questions.

https://twitter.com/keikoinboston/status/1381417549133414401

9. Why should we listen to people?

“When people feel heard, researchers Guy Itzchakov and Avraham Kluger have found, they open up to new ideas. They listen. They say less extreme, more interesting things.”

researchgate.net/publication/31…