Donations are not now providing the minimal funding needed to maintain and develop BI. While we work hard to keep costs down, we still need your financial support.

Donations are not now providing the minimal funding needed to maintain and develop BI. We need your financial support.

Best Alternatives to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA)

Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA)
	Though he didn't use the acronym, Herb Kelman explains how BATNAs caused Oslo to break down.
	Larry Susskind talks about conflict assessment and option identification.
	Joshua Weiss, Associate Director, Global Negotiation Project, Program on Negotiation, Harvard University, describes the challenge of anticipating what the sides want out of a negotiation and how to effectively prepare as a negotiator.
	Larry Susskind explains how BATNAs determine whether consensus agreements are possible.
	Werner Petterson describes the symptoms of a power imbalance, and talks about what can be done to lessen its destructive effects.

Frontiers Topic Areas

Scale, Complexity, & Intractability

Massively Parallel Peacebuilding

Authoritarian Populism

Constructive Confrontation

Beyond Intractability / CRInfo
Knowledge Base

Home / Browse | Essays | Search | About

Beyond Intractability Sections

Interconnected learning materials to help everyone better deal with intractable conflicts.

Educators
Consider a very low-cost BI-based custom text.

Things You Can Do to Help

Practical things we can all do to limit the destructive conflicts threatening our future.

Conflict Frontiers

Frontier-of-the-field explorations of what makes so many conflicts intractable and what to do about it.

Conflict Fundamentals

Quick summaries of the conflict and peacebuilding field’s fundamental building blocks.

BI in Context

Quality news and feature articles exploring the full range of intractable conflict-related topics.

Colleague Activities

Information about the intractable conflict-related activities of the conflict and peacebuilding fields

Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of Beyond Intractability, the Conflict Information Consortium, or the University of Colorado.

Beyond Intractability
Copyright © 2003-2019 The Beyond Intractability Project, The Conflict Information Consortium, University of Colorado;
All rights reserved. Content may not be reproduced without prior written permission.

Guidelines for Using Beyond Intractability resources. Inquire about Affordable Reprint/Republication Rights.

Citing Beyond Intractability resources.

Photo Credits for Homepage, Sidebars, and Landing Pages

Contact Beyond Intractability

Privacy Policy
The Beyond Intractability Knowledge Base Project
Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess, Co-Directors and Editors
c/o Conflict Information Consortium, University of Colorado
580 UCB, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA -- Phone: (303) 492-1635 -- Contact

Recent Posts