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

Role of NGOs

	Helen Chauncey explains why it is so important that NGOs have clear goals and vision as well as what she calls a "value-added" philosophy.
	Andrea Bartoli discusses the role that religious organizations in Mozambique have played in conflict resolution.
	S.Y. Bowland describes the Practitioners Research And Scholarship Institute.
	Eileen Babbitt describes some of the challenges in evaluating the UNHCR's refugee resettlement efforts in Bosnia and Rwanda.
	Eileen Babbitt describes an Oxfam project in Rwanda that aimed to scale-up interpersonal and local transformation to bring about societal transformation.

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As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. -- Marian Anderson

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