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

Olympio Barbanti, Jr.

Olympio Barbanti, Jr. is on the faculty in the Department of International Relations at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He has 16 years of professional experience on issues relating to the promotion of community-based sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon, and has delivered a number of capacity-building courses on conflict negotiation and consensus building for social and environmental NGOs, government officials, Public Attorney members, and trade union leaders.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance. -- Indira Gandhi

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