Building bridges across divides

Joy Warmington (CEO of brap) and Dr Dayo Eseonu (Lancaster University, founder of the Racial Equity in Policy Network) recently sat down for a frank conversation about what happens when the usual 'bridge-building' approaches to cohesion don't work.

They discuss:

• why the world feels so polarised right now and whether polarisation is a signal of unprocessed experiences and emotions

• what happens when we stop rushing to agreement and treat conflict as a resource, not a threat

• what it takes to host spaces where unpopular views can be heard without being endorsed

• what anti-racism really demands beyond policies and tick boxes

And Joy answers the question that gets her into trouble the most...

To learn more about process work, click here.

If you want to imagine what an anti-racist city might look like, try this.

And here are some thoughts on why we must talk about racism when talking about cohesion.