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

History
	It is easy to learn the history of the community if you listen more than talk, observes CRS Mediator Renaldo Rivera.
	ICRS Mediator Stephen Thom describes collecting information about a conflict by becoming a "sponge."
	Sometimes people remember facts differently, or don't remember facts at all, CRS Mediator Ernest Jones observed.

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No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. -- John Donne

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

The Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity

Other Resources from
Beyond Intractability

Interview With John Paul Lederach
One of the most captivating peacebuilders of our time talks about his work.

Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Menachem Begin
Former Prime Minister of Israel, and 1978 Nobel Peace Laureate

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Project Acknowledgements

The Beyond Intractability Knowledge Base Project
Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess, Co-Directors and Editors
c/o Conflict Information Consortium (Formerly Conflict Research Consortium), University of Colorado
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