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

Peace Processes
	Mari Fitzduff discusses the multifaceted, multi-track "pre-political" work of building grass roots momentum for a peace process in Northern Ireland.
	Mari Fitzduff suggests that cease fire agreements and peace processes take a long time to develop.
	Mary Anderson asserts that practitioners are often too tolerant of slow progress towards peace.
	Mary Anderson describes the minimum requirements for successful conflict analysis, and also presents a matrix which helps to understand where in the peacebuilding system a particular intervention fits.
	Guy Burgess, Co-Director of the University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium and the Beyond Intractability Project, describes controversies over the use of different terms in the field.
	Ron Fisher describes Track I-II coordination in Tajikistan.
	Ron Fisher, of American University, discusses how the field of conflict resolution relates to other peace processes in complex conflict situations.

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