Original Beyond Intractability Knowledge Base

 

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About the Original BI Knowledge Base

The original Knowledge Base contains 1000s of pages of material on the nature of and ways of constructively addressing both "regular," negotiable conflicts, and highly challenging intractable conflicts. The knowledge base was begun in 2000 and has been growing ever since.  The original knowledge base is a combination of the information that came from the earlier project called "CRInfo" (the Conflict Resolution Information Source) and the later Beyond Intractability. CRInfo focused primarily on tractable conflicts, negotiation, mediation, and other standard alternative dispute resolution processes. BI primarily focuses on the ways and reasons that tractable disputes turn into intractable conflict, how that can be prevented, and what can be done to address intractable conflicts constructively.

The knowledge base does not advocate or teach one particular approach. Rather, it provides access to information on many approaches which can then be adapted to many different situations. Our goal is to give people new ideas to think about and new hope. As a free Internet service, BI provides information that is much more affordable and accessible than traditional training programs or hard-to-find books. BI is also constantly growing and changing, making the breadth, depth, and potential of the peacebuilding field more clearly visible.  

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Conflict Information Consortium Legacy / Historical Content
 

This is legacy content from the very earliest days of the Internet and the Consortium program (late 1980's and 1990's). This content was previously accessible at www.colorado.edu/conflict., but that site no longer exists. This content is presented "as is" and "frozen in time" with no effort to update it in any way.  Sections are titled in the list below with their original web address: