Exercises and Simulations

Beyond Intractability: A Free Knowledge Base on More Constructive Approaches to Destructive Conflict

Exercises and Simulations

	Peacebuilding Simulation A role-playing scenario that allows users to work, step-by-step, through a fictional ethnic conflict that plays out at the national and community level. Players can take any one of five "third side" roles to see how "ordinary people" can do extraordinary things to build peace in conflict-ridden communities.
	Racial Conflict Simulation A role-playing scenario that allows users to work, step-by-step, through a fictional racial conflict in a school setting from any of four very different viewpoints.
	Understanding Environmental Problems: General Environmental Dispute Simulation A simulation involving a full range of conflict-related issues within the context of a fictional environmental dispute.
	Understanding Environmental Problems: The Interactive Environmental Framing Simulation An online environmental conflict resolution training program, designed to introduce "framing" as a method of understanding and mitigating social policy conflicts surrounding sensitive environmental issues.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -- Longfellow

Featured Links
Organizations Making Noteworthy Contributions to Efforts to Promote More Constructive Conflict

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online

Other Resources from
Beyond Intractability

Preventive Diplomacy and International Violence Prevention
"The concept and practice of violence prevention have evolved from being focused almost exclusively on the short-term interventions of preventive diplomacy, to a new, more comprehensive approach that can be defined as structural prevention and includes long-term initiatives targeting the root causes of conflict."

Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Rigoberta Menchu Tum
Prominent civil rights activist in Guatemala, and 1992 Nobel Peace Laureate

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