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A window into what we collectively know about more constructive ways of handling the intractable conflicts that threaten both our relationships and our societies.

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A window into what we collectively know about more constructive ways of handling the intractable conflicts that threaten both our relationships and our societies.

Welcome to the New Beyond Intractability
We have just completed a major reorganization and upgrade of the BI system — an upgrade that includes the addition of a new Constructive Conflict Guide which organizes BI resources around a comprehensive framework for thinking about conflict problems and identifying realistic things that can be done to limit or even solve those problems. The new system also continues to provide access to all prior BI content (at the original URLS) plus a version of our "classic" homepage.

Welcome to the New Beyond Intractability
Find out about the recent upgrades to BI including our new Constructive Conflict Guide which organizes BI content around a framework for analyzing and then limiting or solving conflict problems.

Constructive Conflict Initiative
Public Discussion --Discontinued

We have discontinued this discussion due to low involvement.

CCI Home | Invitation to Participate/Comment | Full Initiative Statement | Feedback Summary | Fall Update | More Info

Prepared by
Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess
Co-Directors, Beyond Intractability Project, Conflict Information Consortium

Purpose

We hope to use this forum to stimulate a broad discussion of the ideas presented in the Constructive Conflict Initiative (and other associated documents).

So please use this forum to make comments and suggestions about the Constructive Conflict Initiative

Initial Questions:

Overall Assessment: In principle, does this seem like an effort worth pursuing?
Suggestions: Do you have any specific suggestions for improving either the substance or the language of our initial draft documents?
Related Efforts: Are you aware of people working on similar or overlapping efforts who we should contact with the goal of being as mutually supportive as possible?
Next Steps: Do you have thoughts or suggestions about next steps that should be taken to pursue these ideas further?
Other: Is there anything else related to this initiative that you would like to share?

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