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These guides highlight resources likely to be especially useful to people in particular conflict roles. Contact us to find out about creating a new User Guide focused on your conflict area.

  • Civil Rights Mediation
    Information about civil rights mediation efforts, including oral histories, online exercises, and resource materials.
  • Human Rights Workers
    Information for human rights workers who are dealing with situations involving intractable conflicts.
  • Identity Conflicts
    Information for people involved in ethnic, racial, religious, gender, or other conflicts involving identity issues.
  • Journalism
    Resources for reporters seeking to better understand and explain intractable conflicts.
  • Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
    Resources for people seeking to understand post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding efforts.
  • Relationship Conflicts
    A practical guide prepared by our sister project (CRInfo), highlighting ways of dealing with difficult relationship problems.
  • Religious Leaders and Workers
    Information for and about faith-based approaches to peacebuilding and conflict transformation.
  • Third Side
    The Third Side initiative highlights ways that people in every social role can make a difference. Information is available to help people in the following roles: Arbiters | Bridge Builders | Equalizers | Healers | Mediators | Peacekeepers | Providers | Referees | Teachers | Witnesses
  • Transitional Justice
    Information for people interested in learning about forms of jurisprudence that may be employed by a government or society after it undergoes a major transition (such as democratization), in order to respond to crimes committed by a former regime or by individuals affiliated with it.
 
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Featured Links
Organizations Making Noteworthy Contributions to Efforts to Promote More Constructive Conflict
Citizen Peacebuilding Program (CPBP)
Citizen Peacebuilding Program


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