Nonviolence Entrepreneurship

Great article - https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/08/they-are-preparing-war-an-expert-civil-wars-discusses-where-political-extremists-are-taking-this-country/

Issue: insurgency is a real threat under 2 conditions: (1) anocracy; (2) individuals organizing around identity politics. This is because identity politics are fuzzy and can be easily manipulated.

OSE solution - poach potential employees of violence entreprenuers and insurgencies by providing much more meaningful work, as typical of OSE open source economic development. This needs to happen at scale. Vets, 17M strong [1] - are part of the potential pool of people who are looking for more meaningful work. Ie, OSE must continue on its path of non-violence entrepreneurship.