Massively Parallel Peacebuilding
A new, complexity-oriented strategy for limiting destructive conflict and pursuing Constructive Confrontation instead.

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The second part of the Conflict Frontiers Seminar explains a new, complexity-oriented strategy for limiting destructive conflict and pursuing Constructive Confrontation instead.

M. Shane Smith

M. Shane Smith is a graduate student in the Political Science Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Research Assistant at the University's Conflict Research Consortium.

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