Evidence Base

Research helps us understand how the world works and offers us understanding of how we might live in that world.

➤ The Stanford-based Strengthening Democracy Challenge megastudy, published in the journal Science, proved that Civity’s story-based relational approach can strengthen democracy and reduce polarization by building social trust and fostering connection across difference. Learn more about the Stanford Megastudy.

➤ Civity’s wealth of cross-disciplinary research and thinking — developed over many years — guides our approach to working with people to grow relationships that bridge across differences, which strengthens communities. Learn more about the Thinking Behind Civity.

“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they aren’t true, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”


Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie