Beyond Intractability: A Free Knowledge Base on More Constructive Approaches to Destructive Conflict

Robert Gardner

Robert Gardner is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado, where he works as a research assistant at the Conflict Research Consortium. He has been working for several years on the Environmental Framing Consortium project on Framing of Intractable Environmental Disputes.

The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. -- Macaulay

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Beyond Intractability

Obstacles Become Part of Opportunity
Louis Kriesberg offers President Bush constructive advice on how to overcome severe obstacles that are blocking the Israel/Palestine peace process, by transforming them into opportunities that build trust and peace.

Nobel Peace Prize Winners

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
International relief organization, and 1981 Nobel Peace Laureate

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