Beyond Intractability: A Free Knowledge Base on More Constructive Approaches to Destructive Conflict
William L. Ury
William L. Ury is the Director of the Global Negotiation Project at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. He also works as a consultant and mediator with community, government, and business leaders around the world. Ury's research focuses on the global dynamics of transforming destructive conflicts into constructive processes. Through his Third Side initiative, Ury has examined the role that the surrounding community can play in preventing, resolving, and containing destructive conflict. Ury's interests also include dispute systems design and prevention of or response to ethnic conflict. One of his most recent projects is the global e-Parliament whose mission is to further global democracy through the creation of an ongoing forum in which the world's democratically-elected legislators can engage with civil society in a joint search for effective solutions to global problems.
Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
Featured Links Organizations Making Noteworthy Contributions to Efforts to Promote More Constructive Conflict Plowshares Institute The Plowshares Institute conducts projects around the world, helping to equip social leaders with the tools needed to resolve destructive conflict.
Other Resources from Beyond Intractability Red State/ Blue State: US Political Polarization Though US politics has long been divided along ideological lines, the last two presidential elections have created increased polarization between liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans. How did this happen? Is it good for the country? Can anything be done to reunited us?
Nobel Peace Prize Winners
Willy Brandt Former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, and 1971 Nobel Peace Laureate
The Beyond Intractability Knowledge Base Project Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess, Co-Directors and Editors c/o Conflict Information Consortium(Formerly Conflict Research Consortium), University of Colorado Campus Box 580, Boulder, CO 80309 Phone: (303) 492-1635; Fax: (303) 492-2154; Contact
