{"id":1466,"date":"2014-05-12T14:33:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/?page_id=1466"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:08:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:08:51","slug":"dividers-and-connectors-analysis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/dividers-and-connectors-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Dividers and Connectors Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What do you need to know to make good decisions? You need to know the context\u2014you need an accurate enough map of reality. You need to have a model of change\u2014you need to know how change happens. You need to know what you can do\u2014you need to understand your own power and constraints.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dividers and Connectors Analysis (DCA) gives us a model of the context against which to test our understanding. Today\u2019s model is good enough inasmuch as it helps us to rapidly see change. Today\u2019s model is good enough inasmuch as we review it and revise it constantly based on the changes we observe.<\/p>\n<p>DCA reduces the amount of information about the context to a manageable level, while maintaining a focus on the most important factors.<\/p>\n<p><i>Dividers are . . .<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Dividers are those things or factors that increase tensions between people or groups and may lead to destructive competition.<\/p>\n<p><i>Connectors are . . .<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Connectors are those things or factors that reduce tensions between people or groups and lead to and undergird constructive collaboration. We also use the phrase \u201clocal capacities for peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"box\">Previous Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/four-do-no-harm-techniques\/\" title=\"Four Do No Harm Techniques\u00a0\">Four Do No Harm Techniques\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\nNext Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/dividers-and-connectors-as-categories\/\" title=\"Dividers and Connectors as Categories\">Dividers and Connectors as Categories<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<br \/>\n<a title=\"How to do a Dividers\/Connectors Analysis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/how-to-do-a-dividersconnectors-analysis\/\">How to do a Dividers and Connectors Analysis<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Lesson 2: Contexts are characterized by Dividers and Connectors\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/lesson-2-dividers-and-connectors\/\">Lesson 2: Contexts are characterized by Dividers and Connectors<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Lesson 3: Interventions interact with Dividers and Connectors\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/lesson-3-interaction\/\">Lesson 3: Interventions interact with Dividers and Connectors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you need to know to make good decisions? You need to know the context\u2014you need an accurate enough map of reality. You need to have a model of change\u2014you need to know how change happens. You need to know what you can do\u2014you need to understand your own power and constraints. Dividers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":10270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1466","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2961,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466\/revisions\/2961"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}