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The Intractable Conflict Challenge

Beyond Intractability's initiatives, learning materials, and knowledge base are designed to help everyone play a more constructive role in limiting the intractable and extraordinarily complex conflict problems that threaten our common future. Find out more...

Frontiers Topic Areas

Scale, Complexity, & Intractability

Massively Parallel Peacebuilding

Authoritarian Populism

Constructive Confrontation

Beyond Intractability Sections

Interconnected learning materials to help everyone better deal with intractable conflicts.

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Things You Can Do to Help

Practical things we can all do to limit the destructive conflicts threatening our future.

Conflict Frontiers

Frontier-of-the-field explorations of what makes so many conflicts intractable and what to do about it.

Conflict Fundamentals

Quick summaries of the conflict and peacebuilding field’s fundamental building blocks.

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Colleague Activities

Information about the intractable conflict-related activities of the conflict and peacebuilding fields

Intractable Conflict Challenge

Destructive Conflict is the Most Serious Threat to Our Common Future
It ruins personal lives, prevents us from solving common problems, and underlies dystopian trends toward authoritarianism, chaos, and large-scale violence. More…
Conflict Problems Are Extraordinarily Multifaceted and Complex
Successfully addressing the many challenges posed by destructive conflict will require a large-scale effort that mobilizes the full range of human ingenuity. More...
We All Have a Role to Play In Promoting More Constructive Conflict
While it won't be easy, we all have to find the time and do what we can to help this effort (which means learning to distinguish what helps from what doesn't). More…

Intractable Conflict Challenge

Destructive Conflict is the Most Serious Threat to Our Common Future
It ruins personal lives, prevents us from solving common problems, and underlies dystopian trends toward authoritarianism, chaos, and large-scale violence. More…
Conflict Problems Are Extraordinarily Multifaceted and Complex
Successfully addressing the many challenges posed by destructive conflict will require a large-scale effort that mobilizes the full range of human ingenuity. More...
We All Have a Role to Play In Promoting More Constructive Conflict
While it won't be easy, we all have to find the time and do what we can to help this effort (which means learning to distinguish what helps from what doesn't). More…

Intractable Conflict Challenge

Destructive Conflict is the Most Serious Threat to Our Common Future
It ruins personal lives, prevents us from solving common problems, and underlies dystopian trends toward authoritarianism, chaos, and large-scale violence. More…
Conflict Problems Are Extraordinarily Multifaceted and Complex
Successfully addressing the many challenges posed by destructive conflict will require a large-scale effort that mobilizes the full range of human ingenuity. More...
We All Have a Role to Play In Promoting More Constructive Conflict
While it won't be easy, we all have to find the time and do what we can to help this effort (which means learning to distinguish what helps from what doesn't). More…