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Beyond Intractability

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Hyper-Polarization, COVID, Racism, and the Constructive Conflict Initiative
Read about (and contribute to) the Constructive Conflict Initiative and its associated Blog—our effort to assemble what we collectively know about how to move beyond our hyperpolarized politics and start solving society's problems. 

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Dealing with Intractable Conflict in the United States

 

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

Interviews

  • Baba Bey
  • Fred Brown
  • Roberto Chene
  • Steven Haberfeld
  • Shelly Vendiola
  • Elizabeth Williams
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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
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  • Small Scale Reconciliation – Part 5: Take Advantage of Opportunities for Mutually-Beneficial Joint Actions -- Even when conflicts are stalemated, some common ground is likely to give disputants a toe-hold onto transformation. #mbi_fundamentals
  • Small Scale Reconciliation – Part 4: Leveling the Playing Field -- Equalizing power actually helps both the powerful and the powerless, as it makes negotiation and mutually-beneficial outcomes possible for all. #mbi_fundamentals
  • Small Scale Reconciliation – Part 3: Develop a Unifying Vision for Society -- Small groups can use the tools of large groups to develop consensus visions of their future relationship--often with even more success. #mbi_fundamentals

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Constructive Conflict Initiative

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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

Authoritarian Populism

Constructive Confrontation

 


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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Links to thought-provoking articles exploring the larger, societal dimension of intractability.

 

 


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