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.

This rough transcript provides a text alternative to audio. We apologize for occasional errors and unintelligible sections (which are marked with ???).

I do admit that the destructive energy is there, but it is evanescent, always futile before the creative, which is permanent. -- Gandhi

Featured Links
Organizations Making Noteworthy Contributions to Efforts to Promote More Constructive Conflict

International Crisis Group
"The International Crisis Group (ICG) is an independent, non-profit, multinational organisation, with over 100 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict." (Quote from Website)

Other Resources from
Beyond Intractability

Interview With Mari Fitzduff
A leading peacebuilder from Northern Ireland, Mari talks about her work around the world transforming religious and ethnic conflicts.

Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist, and 1975 Nobel Peace Laureate

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