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

Elicitive Training
	Dick Salem explains some basic rules for mediators and/or trainers working in cultures other than their own.
	Sallyann Roth talks about how to make dialogue training collaborative and elicitive.
	Suzanne Ghais, program manager at CDR Associates in Boulder, Colorado, recommends that mediators coach parties on how to discuss the past in a constructive way. This requires setting ground rules, one of which is to describe behavior rather than attributing motives.
	Elise Boulding on listening and learning for intervenors.
	Mohammed Abu-Nimer asks can North American models of conflict resolution be used and taught in the Middle East? Not exactly.

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