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

People

	Parties to Intractable Conflict From the leader of a paramilitary to an innocent bystander, each person involved in an intractable conflict has the power to either push that conflict towards resolution or make it more destructive.
	Within-Party Differences Members of the same group often have drastically different opinions. These essays discuss the different roles that people play within a single party.
	Third Siders Third siders act in a community threatened with destructive conflict as an immune system acts in a body threatened by disease.
	Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) In 1945 there were around 3,000 international NGOs; by 1990 that number had increased to more than 13,000. This essay discusses both the positive and the negative effects NGO's have on conflict.
	Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) IGO activities are actions taken by international governmental organizations (IGO's) to transform, resolve, or manage conflicts. Activities of the UN and regional IGOs are described in this essay.

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.) -- Booker T. Washington

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Organizations Making Noteworthy Contributions to Efforts to Promote More Constructive Conflict

The Albert Einstein Institution
An organization devoted to the study and application of nonviolent action in conflicts around the world.

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Beyond Intractability

Development and Conflict Theory
"Development should be understood as a process, not a product. Societies are always changing. Some improve, while others fail. Development theory aims at explaining both processes."

Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
Civil rights activist in East Timor, and 1996 Nobel Peace Laureate

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