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

Ripeness Promoting Strategies

	Roy Lewicki considers whether facilitators should pursue resolution when the situation is not "ripe."
	William Zartman discusses his theory of "ripeness."
	According to Chester Crocker, there are various points of convergence among Track I and Track II diplomacy. Both of these processes do things to "ripen" the conflict, he observes, before negotiation can begin.

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I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

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