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

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Understanding Conflict Problems
This group of essays explain the nature of conflicts: their characteristics, underlying causes, what makes them intractable or not, their stages, dynamics, costs and benefits, and other key concepts that are necessary to understand in order to effectively approach or intervene in these situations.
Core Concepts | Causes | Costs and Benefits | Dynamics | Complexity | People | Development & Conflict | Power | Culture and Conflict | Relationships | Facts

Intervention Processes and Outcomes
Approaches for transforming conflicts and measuring results.
Options & Strategies | Assessment & Evaluations | Negotiation | Mediation & Facilitation | Arbitration & Adjudication | Peace Processes (Peacekeeping, Peacemaking, & Peacebuilding) | Outcomes of Intervention | Peace Agreements

Additional Resources
Other useful sections of the Beyond Intractability site, including editorials, a glossary, and a site map.
Site Map | Full Topic List | Full Topic List with Descriptions | Interviews | Editorials | Conflict News | Book and Article Summaries | Affiliated Projects | Glossary | Quotable Quotes | Conflict Organizations

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Methods for searching not only Beyond Intractability, but also external resources related to intractable conflict.
Site Search | Advanced Search | ADR Publishers and Distributors | Beyond Intractability Essays and Articles | Conflict News | Conflict Research Consortium Websites | CRInfo Website | Intractable Conflict Publishers and Distributors | Opinions and Editorials | Peace Publishers and Distributors | Podcasts and Audio Files | SSTR & PO

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller

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

Conflict Management Program

Other Resources from
Beyond Intractability

Reframing Terror From a CR Perspective
Louis Kriesberg offers President Bush constructive advice on how to overcome severe obstacles that are blocking the Israel/Palestine peace process by using them as opportunities to build trust and peace.

Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Aung San Suu Kyi
Activist for democracy and human and civil rights in Myanmar (Burma), and 1991 Nobel Peace Laureate

Beyond Intractability Version IV
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The Beyond Intractability Knowledge Base Project
Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess, Co-Directors and Editors
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