Switching from the Original Online Training Program on Intractable Conflicts (OTPIC) to the new course, Dealing Constructively with Intractable Conflicts (DCIC)

The Dealing Constructively with Intractable Conflicts (DCIC) course is organized quite a bit differently from the original course, although there is considerable overlap of material. If you are in the middle of the old course, you may either continue with it, or switch over to the new course. We recommend that you do switch, because the new course is much newer and much better. But the choice is yours. The downside of switching is that there is not very good correspondence between the units, so if you switch in the middle, you may miss some material and may get other material twice. If you follow our suggestions below about what to do if you are at different parts of the old system, you will avoid some of the duplication, but perhaps not all. We leave it to you to figure out what you need to read and what you can skip. We will judge your understanding of the material by looking at your assignments.

Suggestions for where to start in DCIC if you are part way through OTPIC:

• If you have signed up for the original course, but haven't completed any assignments yet, just start the new course. (You do not need to pay the increased fee.)
• If you have completed the old Unit I, skip Unit I in the new course, and start with Unit II.
• If you have completed the old Unit II, Skip Unit I, do the new Unit II, skip Unit III and the Framing part of Unit IV, but do the rest of IV and the rest of the new course.
• If you have completed the old Unit III, Skip Units I-III, and go on with Unit IV and on in this course.
• If you have completed the old Unit IV, start with Unit V in this course.
• If you have completed the old Unit V, do Unit V in the new course, but skip Unit VI. Then go on to do Units VII-X.
• If you have completed the old Unit VI, start with Unit VII in the new course.
• If you have completed the old Unit VII, start with Unit VIII in the new course.