Whoever wins the U.S. presidential election in November can be confronted with a rustic nonetheless bitterly divided. Many really feel a way of hopelessness and concern for the longer term, simply as they sear over previous injustices. However there are glimmers of options that may be effected via transformational management. The writer, who ran a program at Oxford College that assembled and constructed “unlikely coalitions” amongst greater than 1,000 present and potential public leaders from greater than 100 nations, gives classes from two efforts in Nigeria and Brazil to construct bridges and cut back political tensions and violence.
The tried assassination of former president Donald Trump on July 13 introduced again to Individuals the gut-wrenching political violence that marred the nation within the turbulent and polarizing Nineteen Sixties. Electoral violence can also be all too widespread in different components of the world — voting seasons this yr in India, Mexico, and Pakistan have been tarnished by violence.