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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We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid. -- Gerard Vanderhaar

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