Máire Dugan and Joan Walker Scott
Project Materials
- Dealing with Intractable Conflict in the United States: A Report from the Front Lines
- Peacemaking Processes: Understanding the Connections
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.
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The Intractable Conflict Challenge
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...
Constructive Conflict
Massive Open Online Seminar (MOOS)
Selected Posts
- 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
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Constructive Conflict Initiative
Join Us in calling for a dramatic expansion of efforts to limit the destructiveness of intractable conflict.
Things You Can Do to Help Ideas
Practical things we can all do to limit the destructive conflicts threatening our future.
Conflict Frontiers
A free, open, online seminar exploring new approaches for addressing difficult and intractable conflicts. Major topic areas include:
Scale, Complexity, & Intractability
Massively Parallel Peacebuilding
Conflict Fundamentals
An look at to the fundamental building blocks of the peace and conflict field covering both “tractable” and intractable conflict.
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