The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger may also be pulling the finger.
- Leonard Berkowitz
Topical Audio Interview Segments from the Beyond Intractability Project
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R. Scott Appleby, John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Professor of History at University of Notre Dame, describes the response of various U.S. government agencies to the potential of religion as peacebuilding.
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Empathy, dialogue and humanization are terms not often associated with the U.S. House of Representatives, but all of these elements are what emerged during a retreat for Representatives from both sides of the aisle. Mark Gerzon designed and helped facilitate the process.
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When there are structural inhibitors to justice or equality, how does one go about revealing the structure that causes the problem? Deborah Kolb is an organizational consultant who frequently works in business environments. She talks here about work she did with an organization that wanted to determine why it could not keep women in its ranks. Her intervention was focused largely on revealing the underlying assumptions behind the company's compensation scheme as well as bringing to light the implicit and explicit norms of the organizational culture. Her facilitative probing led to some interesting results.
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Can the way in which an organization is structured lead to injustice? Deborah Kolb, Co-Director of the Program on Negotiations in the Workplace at Harvard University, talks here about work she did with an organization that wanted to determine why it could not keep women in its ranks. Her efforts focused largely on revealing the company's underlying assumptions about gender and their impact on the compensation scheme.
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Peter Coleman describes five different metaphors or ways of defining what intractable conflicts are all about.
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Dennis Sandole talks about the importance of understanding the paradigms of the people involved in the conflict.
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Nancy Ferrell explains why it is so important that each side sees the legitimacy, at least, of the others' interests.
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Can combatants in a conflict become advocates for peace? Mari Fitzduff, formerly Executive Director of INCORE, suggests that some of the best facilitators are paramilitaries and ex-prisoners. Their position as strident advocates for their side's cause may make them uniquely effective peacemakers.