Maury Giles is no stranger to people yelling at him.

Loudly.

On different sides of a ferocious debate.

He finds himself in the middle of exactly that most Friday nights under the bright lights of a fall high school football game, which he’s refereed for the last eight years, including five since moving to Utah.

Every once in a while, when a coach is especially heated, this brawny, football-player-sized man admits to trying out a conflict navigation skill he learned from years of volunteering at Braver Angels , well before Giles was asked to become CEO of the organization this summer.

“Working with Braver Angels has been the honor of my life,” organization co-founder David Blankenhorn said in an early July message introducing Giles as his successor. “I believe this organization we lo

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