Mission
We believe that destructive conflict is the most serious threat to democracy and our common future. It ruins personal lives, prevents us from solving other pressing problems (such as deep inequality, racism, climate change, infectious disease, etc.) and it underlies dystopian trends toward authoritarianism, chaos, and large-scale violence. BI's mission, therefore, is to raise the profile of the intractable conflict problem, help explain its nature and causes, and to greatly increase the number of people worldwide who have the motivation, knowledge, and skills needed to address it effectively. By using the Internet to collect and disseminate cutting-edge conflict knowledge, we aim to help people more effectively tackle all conflicts — ranging from the relatively simple interpersonal ones, to the societal-level, complex, intractable conflicts which lie at the frontier of the peace and conflict field.
It ruins personal lives, prevents us from solving common problems, and underlies dystopian trends toward authoritarianism, chaos, and large-scale violence.
Successfully addressing the many challenges posed by destructive conflict will require a large-scale effort that mobilizes the full range of human ingenuity.
While it won't be easy, we all have to find the time and do what we can to help this effort (which means learning to distinguish what helps from what doesn't).
