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

Rumor Control
	Tamra D'Estree explains how connections formed during small group processes can later be used to quel rumor or clarify disputed facts.
	Nancy Ferrell discusses how rumors can be controlled by opening lines of credible communication.
	Mediator Silke Hansen describes how she gained the parties' trust by serving as a one-person rumor control team.
	Mediator Robert Hughes reports that one aspect of an agreement after a police shooting incident was the formation of a fact-finding team.
	Mediator Manuel Salinas describes CRS rumor control teams.

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The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. -- Macaulay

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