Browse across stovepipe boundaries that separate military and civilian, governmental and
non-governmental organizations involved in security, stabilization, transition, and reconstruction and peace operations (SSTR & PO).
Also, see our Conflict News Browser.

Organizations involved in various types of conflict prevention, peacebuilding, and SSTR & PO (security, stabilization, transition, and reconstruction and peace operations) often operate almost exclusively within their own, internal organizational structure and hierarchy. The result is a "stovepiping" effect that can undermine the effectiveness of peace operations by making it difficult for governmental and nongovernmental as well as military and civilian organizations to identify and take advantage of cooperative opportunities. This website provides a mechanism for starting to overcome this problem.

The Beyond Intractability "Stovepipe Browser" is a new service (currently available in "beta" form) that continually indexes the websites of organizations engaged in peace-related operations to identify web pages from organizations in the various different "stovepipes" that seem to address similar issues. The result is an initial collection of continually updated links to information about the ways in which different organizations address 27 key conflict topics. (We'd appreciate hearing your suggestions about additional topics to include.) Also provided is a search engine that allows users to search the system on their own.

Currently, the system is indexing the websites of over 100 key organizations. (We are in the process of refining this list of organizations and websites and would appreciate any suggestions for additions or deletions that users might have.) In building the system, we are trying hard to reduce information overload and maintain quality, by being quite selective in deciding which organizations to include.

Like all Beyond Intractability services, we continue to depend upon our users, and the funding community more generally, for financial support. We are actively looking for the funding to maintain and further develop this system. Improvements that we would like to make include: the addition of synonym tables that make it easier to span terminology differences between different organizations; better coverage of web pages on access-restricted (but still public) sites; indexing of websites with complex domain names that may be missed by the current system; the addition of news feeds, and more frequent updating. We would greatly appreciate hearing any ideas you might have for obtaining such funding.

Browse some of these topics. You're certain to find other organizations doing interesting, valuable, and unfamiliar things.