Reconstruction, Stabilization, and Conflict Transformation
Conflict Learning Systems
Examples of Existing Materials — The Foundation of the Learning Systems
While Learning Systems are a new idea (and no completed systems are yet available), there are many resources on our current websites that offer starting points for the work that we are proposing to do. These include:
User Guides, "Things to Think About" Checklists, Search, and Browse Systems provide entry points for users of the existing Beyond Intractability system. As described in the prospectus, a major focus of our Learning System development efforts will be the refinement of these tools. Currently, Beyond Intractability includes the following:
Topical Summary Articles explain key ideas and include with hypertext links to articles on related topics. (Additional recommented readings are given at the bottom of each article.) For the Learning Systems, these articles will be edited to include short PowerPoint-type summaries and/or multimedia presentations of key ideas as well as better illustrations of how each idea can be applied to reconstruction, stabilization, and conflict transformation problems. Examples of topics covered include:
Annotated Case Studies link case study materials to Beyond Intractability topical articles. A major focus of the new Learning Systems will be the development of a much stronger collection of case study materials, focused specifically on the problems faced by Learning System constituents. We will also improve the links to interpretive materials. Current case studies include:
Interviews have proven to be a very good way of incorporating the practical, real-world experiences and insights of conflict practitioners — people who are often too busy to write down what they know. The current system contains over a hundred hours of such interviews with people like those listed below. You'll also note that short segments from these interviews are integrated into many of the Beyond Intractability articles. For the Learning Systems, we will focus our attention on the short interview segments.
- Early examples of National Public Radio-type segments — Envisioning | Identity | Nature of Intractability
- Andrea Bartoli - Director of the International Conflict Resolution Program of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and Chair of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network
- Jannie Botes - Assistant Professor, Program on Negotiations and Conflict Management, University of Baltimore
- Chester Crocker - Research Professor of Diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
- Ron Fisher - Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution, School of International Service, American University
- Mari Fitzduff - Professor and Director of the MA Conflict and Coexistence Programme at Brandeis University
- Wendell Jones - Ombudsman, Sandia National Lab
- Herbert Kelman - Professor Emeritus, Program on Negotiation, Harvard University
- Louis Kriesberg - Professor Emeritus, Sociology, University of Syracuse. Also author of numerous books on intractable conflict
- John Paul Lederach - The Moral Imagination - Professor at Eastern Mennonite University, International Peacebuilder and Trainer. This is the keynote address from the 2004 annual conference of the Association for Conflict Resolution and draws from Professor Lederach's new book, "The Moral Imagination."
- Hal Saunders - Director of International Affairs at the Kettering Foundation
- William Steubner - Executive Director, Alliance for International Conflict Prevention and Resolution
- Larry Susskind - Co-Director of the Public Disputes Program, Inter-University Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
- William Ury - Director of the Global Negotiation Project, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School
- William Zartman (Portilla, Interviewer) - Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution and Director of Conflict Management at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
- Full List of Available Interviews
User Contributions are just starting to be incorporated into the Beyond Intractability system, with our Call for Contributions and Personal Stories sections. Full development of this aspect of the program will be a major feature of the new Learning Systems.
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