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

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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
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, focusing particularly on hyper-polarization and threats to democracy (from both the left and the right).

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.

Lou is a long-time contributor to Beyond Intractability, and is the person who taught us (Guy and Heidi) the term "intractable conflict" when he co-edited (with Terrell Northrup, and Stuart Thorson,) the seminal book Intractable Conflicts and Their Transformation in 1989! We've been learning from Lou ever since!

When we were first trying to launch this blog, Lou sent us links to a number of blog posts he had recently published. Many are now a bit out of date--but what they say still is very timely, because, sadly, most intractable conflicts do not go away!

Blog posts Lou shared with us include:

Better Alternatives to President Trump’s Foreign Policies Oxford University Press Blog, April 16^TH 2017
Constructive Conflict Applications in Obama’s Foreign Policies - Foreign Policy in Focus: November 11, 2015
Trump’s Misrepresented Foreign Policies- Huffington Post Mar 29, 2017
Trump and the Need for a Stronger Infrastructure for Peace Co-authored by Lou Kriesberg and Bruce Dayton. Huffington Post Dec. 09,2016
Obama, Kerry, and Israeli-Palestinian Realities Foreign Policy in Focus: January 10, 2017.
It’s Time to Drop Preconditions and Re-Open Talks with North Korea: Negotiating between the United States and North Korea can't wait. Co-authored by Frederick Carriere, Louis Kriesberg and Stuart Thorson Foreign Policy in Focus: Oct. 21, 2016. WOW were they right!!!

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