Dynamics

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

Dynamics

	Factors Shaping the Course of Intractable Conflict The parties, issues, setting, and history are among the factors that shape the course of conflicts.
	Conflict Stages These essays detail the typical stages an intractable conflict goes through.
	Social Psychological Dynamics of Conflict
	Escalation/De-Escalation Escalation is an increase in the intensity and destructiveness of a conflict. These essays detail both the costs and benefits of escalation and also how to de-escalate a conflict.

Peace is an environment where conflicts are resolved without violence, where people are free, not exploited, living so they can grow to their full potential. -- Gerard Vanderhaar

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The Darfur Region of the Sudan
Why doesn't the world stop the violence? What makes the Sudan such an intractable conflict?

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Linus Carl Pauling
California Institute of Technology chemist, and 1962 Nobel Peace Laureate

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