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What Are Intractable Conflicts? (Conflict Frontiers Video)
The notion of "intractability" is widely misunderstood. We try to clear up the confusion in this Frontiers Video.
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What Are Intractable Conflicts? (Fundamentals Essay)
Intractability refers to conflicts that seem to be stuck in an increasingly destructive spiral. These conflicts consume time, money and energy and at their worst, result in millions of deaths.
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Intractable Conflicts and Dispute Streams
The term intractable conflict primarily refers to long-term, underlying societal tensions and not the more tractable, short-term disputes that occur within the context of the larger conflict.
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How Are Intractable Conflicts Different from Other Conflicts?
Intractable conflict also arises from the enormous scale and complexity of society-wide conflict and the fact that handling these complex conflicts constructively is enormously difficult, even in the best of circumstances.