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

Introduction: Civil rights mediator Nancy Ferrell always aims to make systemic changes.

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Systemic Change
Nancy Ferrell
Former CRS Mediator, Dallas Office

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The other thing, in terms of the regent's response [in a university conflict], is we always went toward systemic change. Once we responded to any kind of immediate danger, we started looking for systemic response and not just fixing the incident, but looking at the systems that were there and how we needed to deal with them.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. -- Heinz Pagels

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