The combined Beyond Intractability/CRInfo knowledge base has many thousand pages and can be hard to navigate.
- If you know what you are looking for, you can go to the search page which allows you to search all of the knowledge base, along with all of the MBI Content (as MBI pages are created, they, too, become part of the knowledge base.
- If you aren't sure what you are looking for, we have a browse system as well as several "suggestion engines" that suggest materials that particular users might be interested in.
- The browse system lists materials by type (essay, case study, interviews etc) and within those three types, you can also browse by topic.
- The "suggestion engines" are the two MBI Seminars plus the Beyond Intractability in Context and What Everyone Can Do Blogs, as well as a set of "user guides" to Beyond Intractability
- The Conflict Fundamentals Seminar contains brief readings and videos which highlight the conflict and peacebuilding field's fundamental building blocks – ideas which help address both "tractable" and intractable conflicts more effectively. This functions as a guided tour of Beyond Intractability Knowledge Base essays, curating them, in a sense, for current conflict situations.
- The Conflict Frontiers Seminar was designed to pick up, in a sense, where the knowledge base left off. With it, we are trying to add new knowledge and put it in the context of the more established knowledge in the original knowledge base essays, and the current news.
- The Beyond Intractability in Context Blog has almost daily postings of articles that highlight concepts presented in Knowledge Base essays--examining both conflict challenges and solutions.
- The What Everyone Can Do Blog highlights things ordinary people (meaning non-leaders, non-experts) can do to more effectively address both tractable and intractable conflicts in their own lives. These short posts link to other Knowledge Base materials--hence they, too, serve as a "suggestion engine" for the Knowledge Base.
- The Beyond Intractability User Guides were earlier attempts to suggest materials in the Knowledge Base that are likely to be of interest to particular audiences. For example, we have user guides for:
- Particular user groups: Human Rights Workers, Religious Leaders and Workers, and Journalists and
- Particular topic areas, including:
- How to Stop Fighting (a Guide to Interpersonal Conflict Resolution)
- Human Rights for:
- Identity Conflicts
- Legitimacy, accountability, and transparency in governance.
- Limiting Violence and Intimidation
- Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
- Relationship Conflicts
- Transitional Justice
We also have a "Quick Start Video" on how to use the Knowledge Base.