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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
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, focusing particularly on hyper-polarization and threats to democracy (from both the left and the right).

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.

As of Fall, 2019, we are discontinuing the MBI Discussions because they never really "took off."

However, the discussion around the Contructive Conflict Initiative did generate a lot of good comments, so we are leaving those in. The questions we asked people were:

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?

This set of questions did generate over 100 thoughtful responses (as of Oct. 2019), most of which came in via email and are reported on the CCI Feedback Page.

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