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

Unmet Human Needs
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	Wallace Warfield talks about working with street gangs in New York City.
	What should an outsider consider about local culture before intervening? Scholar-practitioner Wallace Warfield explains the debate between the basic human needs approach versus the cultural anthropological view.
	Kevin Avruch expresses skepticism about the universality of basic human needs.
	Roy Lewicki describes how incompatible frames can lead to intractable conflicts.
	Richard Rubenstein suggests that religious identity plays a special in both the expression of conflict and its resolution.
	Herb Kelman describes how problem solving workshops differ from other kinds of third-party processes, and describes the process he uses in detail.

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I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action. -- Malcolm X

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