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.
Women and Intractable Conflict
Women and Intractable Conflict
Deborh Kolb suggests that power inequities often prevent women from being effective negotiators.
Deborh Kolb talks about the impact of gender bias on a company's compensation scheme.
Deborh Kolb asks, "Why are women not at negotiating tables?"
Elise Boulding discusses women, children, artists are all important third-siders.
Elise Boulding talks about women's special role in peacemaking.
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