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The Shadow Stripe

Find the shadow stripe.
Move toward resolution.

The Plains zebras of Southern Africa carry a natural shadow stripe — a faint line that runs between the black and white. It is simply there; once you’ve seen it you can’t unsee it. Conflict carries one too.

The obvious reading of a conflict is black and white: someone is right, someone is wrong. The truth usually runs between — like the shadow stripe on a Plains zebra, faint but unmistakable once you’ve seen it.

Seven questions about the situation you are carrying. About three minutes. There is no sign-up and nothing is recorded — your answers never leave this page. At the end: not a diagnosis, but a different place to stand while you look.