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

Costing
	Nancy Ferrell talks about cost-benefit analysis and visioning as mediation techniques.
	Nancy Ferrell discusses mediators' role in empowering minority or low-power parties.
	Mari Fitduff talks about ways to persuade parties that peace is in their best interest.

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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. -- Oscar Arias

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Organizations Making Noteworthy Contributions to Efforts to Promote More Constructive Conflict

UN Humanitarian Information Centers (HICs)

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Beyond Intractability

Interview With Morton Deutsch
One of the founders of this field talks about his research into "malignant relationships."

Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Medecins Sans Frontieres
1999 Nobel Peace Laureate; also known as Doctors Without Borders

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