Fall 2019 Update Find out about recent improvements to Beyond Intractability including next steps for the Constructive Conflict Initiative and a new online MOOS seminar.
Historical Facts
Elise Boulding talks about history of differences.
Julia Chaitin talks about a Palestinian-Israeli joint history textbook.
Barry Hart of Eastern Mennonite University explains how trauma can contribute to perpetuating the cycle of violence. He draws examples from the Balkans.
Determining when events happened is important to understanding a situation, says mediator Silke Hansen.
It is easy to learn the history of the community if you listen more than talk, observes CRS Mediator Renaldo Rivera.
ICRS Mediator Stephen Thom describes collecting information about a conflict by becoming a "sponge."
ICRS Mediator Stephen Thom describes how some parties can help the mediator more than others.
It is easy to learn the history of the community if you listen more than talk, observes CRS Mediator Renaldo Rivera.
Our inability to constructively handle intractable conflict is the most serious, and the most neglected, problem facing humanity. Solving today's tough problems depends upon finding better ways of dealing with these conflicts. More...
When Everything Is a Human Right, Nothing Is --
Amid the ongoing proliferation of "rights," an argument for focusing on building support for a few fundamental rights. #mbi_context
Coexistence --
We used to talk about coexistence between the US and the USSR. Now, is it time to talk about coexistence between the left and the right? #mbi_fundamentals
Engineering and Medical Troubleshooting Models --
An argument that medicine not engineering offers a better model for dealing with the complexities of large-scale intractable conflict. conflict. #mbi_frontiers