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

Nita Yawanarajah

Nita Yawanarajah is a UN Political Affairs Officer and the Project Manager for the UN Department of Political Affairs Peacemaking Databank Project: UN Peacemaker (www.un.org/peacemaker). UN Peacemaker is a publicly available website on the United Nations' experience in peacemaking and mediation.

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future. -- St. Therese of Lisieux

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