User Guides

These guides highlight resources likely to be especially useful to people in particular conflict roles. Contact us to find out about creating a new User Guide focused on your conflict area.

Civil Rights Mediation
Information about civil rights mediation efforts, including oral histories, online exercises, and resource materials.
Human Rights Workers
Information for human rights workers who are dealing with situations involving intractable conflicts.
Identity Conflicts
Information for people involved in ethnic, racial, religious, gender, or other conflicts involving identity issues.
Journalism
Resources for reporters seeking to better understand and explain intractable conflicts.
Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Resources for people seeking to understand post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding efforts.
Relationship Conflicts
A practical guide prepared by our sister project (CRInfo), highlighting ways of dealing with difficult relationship problems.
Religious Leaders and Workers
Information for and about faith-based approaches to peacebuilding and conflict transformation.
Third Side
The Third Side initiative highlights ways that people in every social role can make a difference. Information is available to help people in the following roles: Arbiters | Bridge Builders | Equalizers | Healers | Mediators | Peacekeepers | Providers | Referees | Teachers | Witnesses
Transitional Justice
Information for people interested in learning about forms of jurisprudence that may be employed by a government or society after it undergoes a major transition (such as democratization), in order to respond to crimes committed by a former regime or by individuals affiliated with it.