I Respectfully Disagree

CHAPTER 4 The Disagreement Divide

Are You Building Up Barriers or Bridging the Divide?

This chapter explores the divide that exists between “you” and “them” and gives you practical tools to bridge that divide rather than build up barriers. This will be the introduction to the 5 Pillars of Bridging the Divide. In this chapter, pay attention to ways to set helpful boundaries as you engage the disagreement divide.

Imagine stepping back in time to the early 1990s. South Africa is in turmoil, a tinderbox of racial tension primed to explode at any moment. Enter Nelson Mandela, a man just released from a twenty-seven-year stint in jail, not for theft, not for violence, but for standing against apartheid. His challenge? To steer this stormy sea of discord ...