Phil Barker is a graduate student in Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder and is a part of the research staff at the Conflict Research Consortium.
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The Intractable Conflict Challenge
Our inability to constructively handle intractable conflict is the most serious, and the most neglected, problem facing humanity. Solving today's tough problems depends upon finding better ways of dealing with these conflicts. More...
Selected Recent BI Posts
Including Hyper-Polarization Posts
- Comments on Our Webinar with Ashok Panikkar on "Whither Peacebuilding" -- Does peacebuilding always work? Are there some instances in which it should not be pursued? The Burgesses and three readers weigh in.
- Comments on Our Webinar with Ashok Panikkar on "Whither Peacebuilding" -- Our discussion with Ashok about peacebuilding after USAID and USIP generated three very different comments. We share them all and respond here.
- Bridge-Building in Times of Hyper-Polarization: An ACR-EPP Webinar -- A report on the webinar Guy and Heidi Burgess did with the Environmental and Public Policy Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution, focusing on how environmental and public policy mediators might be able to help strengthen U.S. democracy.
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