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

Clarify Goals
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	Civil rights mediator Nancy Ferrell always aims to make systemic changes.
	CRS mediator Silke Hansen describes how she helps parties reframe their demands to ones that are not only attainable, but also will likely yield better outcomes for them over the long term.
	Stephen Thom describes how he persuades the parties to mediate as he does his situation assessment.
	Civil rights mediator Ozell Sutton always tried to help the parties learn how to deal with their future problems themselves.
	Civil rights mediator Dick Salem explains how you help disputants devise an acheivable agenda.
	Former civil rights mediator Wallace Warfield explains how he works with the parties to help them clarify their issues.
	Former Community Relations Service Mediator Wallace Warfield discusses how he balances his mediation activities with justice concerns.

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