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Community Members Toolkit

Community Members Toolkit

Community Members Toolkit

Tools for residents when conflicts arise in communities.

The Divided Community Project’s Virtual Toolkit for community members is designed to help them articulate their community spirit and become more engaged in improving the community and more willing to solve problems despite their differences. Tools include guides, checklists, and more.

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“When community members realize that the vast majority of them share a basic aspiration — a sense that can be termed the “Community Spirit” — they will treat each other with more respect and consideration and feel that they belong to something bigger than themselves.”

Carl Smallwood, J.D.
Executive Director, Divided Community Project

Key Toolkit Resources

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Speaking Out to Strengthen the Guardrails of Democracy

This guide covers threats to the guardrails in democracies around the world and offers dispute resolution-informed ideas for speaking out against weakening those guardrails.
Read the Guide
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Identifying a Community Spirit

This guide offers ideas to identify and articulate the spirit of a community, a process that reminds participants of the goals and identities that residents share despite differences on policy issues.
Read the Guide

Explore more resources for community members

Have questions?

Reach out to the Divided Community Project. 

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William Froehlich
Lecturer; Director, Divided Community Project; Langdon Fellow in Dispute Resolution
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