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Welcome to the NEW Beyond Intractability: The Conflict Information Consortium is in the process of upgrading Beyond Intractabiliy, turning it into what we refer to as a CL3 system. Unlike the origical website, which was just a knowledge base, the new site takes advantage of new networking opportunities to create an online community of people interested in intractable conflict. We also have added a great deal of material on good governance, as we were, for the last two years, working with the One Earth Future Foundation, with whom we developed the Governance Commons (TGC) website. That partnership has now ended. However, Beyond Intractability will still contain all of the material we developed on governance during the partnership period, and will continue to focus both on conflict and governance issues in the future.
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The New Beyond Intractability is organizing a Challenge-oriented, Large-scale, Long-term, Learning (CL3) Community. Through this community, we hope users from myriad backgrounds--civilian government, IGOs and NGOs, business, and the military--from all over the world--will join together to discuss and expand the ideas presented here. By doing so, we will be able to work together to improve the knowledge base, while simultaneously learning how to better address intractable conflict and governance problems at international, national, and local levels.
Destructive conflict dynamics associated with intractable conflicts routinely undermine good governance and society's problem solving ability as countless stories attest. We must learn how to more constructively handle such conflicts if we are to be able to successfully analyze problems, develop and assess options for addressing those problems, and, finally, select, implement, and evaluate the most effective, equitable, and efficient solutions. More...
In addressing intractable conflict, the CL3 Community focuses on improving our ability to handle nine often unmet challenges:
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Improving Security
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Promoting Cooperative Relationships
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Assuring Efficiency and Effectiveness
More about the challenges...
Human society has been struggling with these challenges for millennia. While great progress has been made, the difficulties that remain are enormously challenging and require new approaches capable of dealing with complex psychological, economic, social, and political issues. A number of principles are key to success. More...
In addition to sorting articles by challenge, we have also sorted them into four user-group "portals." While there is overlap, each of these portals presents information we think is likely to be of interest to different user groups. The four portals are:
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Education -- with easy access to basic, "prerequisite" knowledge on the nine challenges for students and teachers
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Practice -- with practical advice for those actually struggling to deal with these challenges in practical roles, and
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Research and Development -- with a window into the latest efforts to advance the frontier of the conflict and governance fields.
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News and Features -- The "Chronicle" is a frequently-updated page with current news, analysis, and innovative responses designed to interest all users.
Everyone has free, "read only" access to the Beyond Intractability, but you must obtain a username and "log in" to post comments, ask questions, or otherwise take advantage of the system's many participation opportunities. Free usernames are available at our registration page.
Beyond Intractability's Special and Affiliated Projects section highlights projects undertaken jointly with the Governance Commons to serve the interests of particular constituents, as well as the work of other organizations doing conflict and governance work that are in affiliated with Beyond Intractability. More...
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Beyond Intractability
Copyright © 2003-2012 The Beyond Intractability Project, The Conflict Information Consortium, University of Colorado;
Beyond Intractability is a Registered Trademark of the University of Colorado
The Beyond Intractability Knowledge Base Project
Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess, Co-Directors and Editors
c/o Conflict Information Consortium (Formerly Conflict Research Consortium), University of Colorado
580 UCB, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA -- Phone: (303) 492-1635 -- Contact
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