In an August 5th Substack piece, Chip Hauss covered the new book, From Conflict to Convergence: Coming Together to Solve Tough Problems, by Convergence Founder and First CEO Rob Fersh and CEO and President Mariah Levison. Hauss wrote about his history working with Rob and dove deep into the Convergence process noting optimistically that,

“Rob, Mariah, and their team know that they are not going to fully resolve any intractable conflict or completely solve any complex policy problem. What they can do is to help the parties to those disputes converge on steps that would make major dents in addressing the underlying problems, dents that could be built on to make even more progress later on.

The book is a delight to read because it constantly flips back and forth between three guiding principles that underlie Convergence’s work and what it has learned in applying them over the last twenty years in both institutional settings. Early in it, they refer to what might be seen as their philosophy.”