Societal Level Intractable Conflict Threat

A window into what we collectively know about more constructive ways of handling the intractable conflicts that threaten both our relationships and our societies.

Welcome to the New Beyond Intractability
We have just completed a major reorganization and upgrade of the BI system — an upgrade that includes the addition of a new Constructive Conflict Guide which organizes BI resources around a comprehensive framework for thinking about conflict problems and identifying realistic things that can be done to limit or even solve those problems. The new system also continues to provide access to all prior BI content (at the original URLS) plus a version of our "classic" homepage.

Welcome to the New Beyond Intractability
Find out about the recent upgrades to BI including our new Constructive Conflict Guide which organizes BI content around a framework for analyzing and then limiting or solving conflict problems.

2. Intractable Conflict Threat and Opportunity

As we explained in our earlier article on The Intractable Conflict Threat, unrestrained intractable conflict prevents us from addressing our most important other problems (such as the economy, immigration, climate, health care and education, religious freedom, racism, etc.). It also underlies the increasingly prevalent dystopian trends toward authoritarianism, chaos, and large scale violence. It is preventing our governments from performing the duties and roles they are entrusted to do, and as they continue to fail to do so, our distrust in them grows, just making the problem worse. These problems are fleshed out in the articles linked below.