Susan Allen Nan and Andrea Strimling
Project Materials
- Track One - Track Two Cooperation: A Symposium at the United States Institute of Peace
- Track One - Track Two Cooperation (An Essay for Beyond Intractability)
The Hyper-Polarization Challenge to the Conflict Resolution Field: A Joint BI/CRQ Discussion
BI and the Conflict Resolution Quarterly invite you to participate in an online exploration of what those with conflict and peacebuilding expertise can do to help defend liberal democracies and encourage them live up to their ideals.
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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...
Selected Recent BI Posts
Including Hyper-Polarization Posts
- The Israel/Hamas War: A Perfect Storm of Complexity and Chaos -- A consideration of the factors that are making the Israel/Hamas war so exceptionally difficult even to talk about (civilly at least) let alone solve.
- Intersectionality, Israel, and Peacebuilding: How Do They Mix? -- Reflecting on messages from readers about our Israel/Hamas writing and why we see this as differently as we do from many of our colleagues.
- More On the Israel/Hamas War from Contributors -- New comments from Israeli peacebuilder Julia Chaitin and U.S. psychotherapist Madeline Taylor about the Israel/Hamas war.
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Things You Can Do to Help Ideas
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Conflict Frontiers
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Scale, Complexity, & Intractability
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Conflict Fundamentals
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