Since the events of January 6, 2021, Danielle M. Reiff has been a regular contributor to the opinion sections at Newsweek magazine and The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. In her Peacebuilders columns, she shares analysis and recommendations related to political violence and peacebuilding in the U.S. She also advocates nonviolence and unity in diversity.

How to Prevent Widespread Violence After Trump’s Shooting

This article argues that everyday Americans can lead as peacebuilders in the current volatile political environment. It provides a list of things we can all do to help prevent political violence in the lead-up to the 2024 election and beyond. This...
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Brace for Election Violence. Work to Prevent It

It’s time for people to start thinking about and planning a response to the next round of possible election contestation and violence. As we have monitored the news over the past three years, most people had faith in our legal system to save us...
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We Americans Can Find Common Ground. Here’s How It Starts.

We Americans Can Find Common Ground. Here’s How It Starts.

  This article challenges America’s “exhausted majority” to lean into building bridges across our traditional divides and provides links to organizations that can help. I’m rubber, and you’re glue. Whatever you say...
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Migrants Aren’t ‘Animals’ and A ‘Bloodbath’ Isn’t Inevitable

This article opens with the columnist’s experience recognizing the warning signs of mass atrocities in South Sudan in 2016. It then uses the same framework to assess the growing risk of mass atrocities in the U.S. today. On July 7, 2016, while...
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Migrants Aren’t ‘Animals’ and A ‘Bloodbath’ Isn’t Inevitable
Want to Stop Political Violence? Learn to Read the Media

Want to Stop Political Violence? Learn to Read the Media

This article discusses the role of disinformation in political violence and offers practical tips for being a more savvy, responsible consumer of news and information who avoids doing harm. A leading political violence monitoring organization put the...
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Nonviolence Is the Only American Answer to a Potentially Violent U.S. Election

This article outlines the risk factors for political violence around the 2024 U.S. elections. It also argues that Kingian nonviolence will be the most effective response. The United States and 50 other countries will hold national elections in 2024...
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Nonviolence Is the Only American Answer to a Potentially Violent U.S. Election

White Women and Racial (In)Justice – It’s Not Black and White

This article urges white women to break the chains of their own intergenerational trauma to stand up for racial justice. Mayella Ewell is one of the most complex characters in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” She is a white woman who makes sexual advances...
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We Can Still Prevent Political Violence in America

This article reminds Americans that it is not in our interest to be divided to the point of distrust and violence. To ensure our social cohesion and national unity, we must all take steps to deepen trust with our family members and neighbors even...
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We Can Still Prevent Political Violence in America

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