Center for Collaborative Democracy

The Center for Collaborative Democracy is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that grew out of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program. We work with experienced practitioners in conflict resolution, behavioral economics and game theory in order to develop innovative methods for resolving societal ills that established institutions are failing to remedy.

We are currently focused on bridging differences among an increasingly polarized American public in time to prevent our democracy from breaking down. To develop a practical plan for achieving that goal, CCD has done extensive research on political adversaries outside government who have reached agreements that advanced the long-term interests of all sides.

We are launching a project designed to generate equivalent results on a national scale. The project’s purpose is to build wide public support for a combination of widely beneficial, cost-effective solutions for declining social and economic mobility, inadequate schools, a very inefficient healthcare system, a tax code filled with perverse incentives, increasingly destructive weather, and unsustainably rising national debt.