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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.

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Note: This page (and underlying pages) were created about 20 years ago by Peter Coleman and some of his students. There are now many broken links here, but we are not able to hunt them down. We leave this up as a "legacy page," which still does have some links that work.

This Dynamical Systems Application Resources project supports the work of the Dynamical Systems Theory Innovation Lab, whose goal is to "bring together experienced scholar-practitioners working with complexity science, conflict and peace to share leading-edge ideas, methods and practices in order to inspire and support collaborative work in this area for moving the work forward" (from Website).

Scholars working at the forefront of Dynamical Systems Theory include:

Peter Coleman
Beth Fisher-Yoshida
Robert Ricigliano
Andrea Bartoli
Danny Burns
Diana Chigas
Larry Liebovitch
Robin Vallacher
Andrzej Nowak

Please visit the DST Innovation Lab website for more information about these scholars.

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