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  • Title: Parties to Intractable Conflict
    Author(s): Heidi Burgess
    Larger Work: Beyond Intractability
    Link to: Webpage
    Publishing Organization: University of Colorado Conflict Information Consortium
    Year: 2004
  • Title: Levels of Action
    Author(s): Michelle Maiese (summarizing John Paul Lederach)
    Larger Work: Beyond Intractability
    Link to: Webpage
    Publishing Organization: University of Colorado Conflict Information Consortium
    Year: 2003
    Description: This essay explains John Paul Lederach's "triangle" which describes three levels of society at which would-be conflict resolvers might work: the grassroots, the leaders, and the middle level. While peacework must be done at all three levels, the middle level is especially important, Lederach says, at it links the top with the bottom as well as linking across party lines.
  • Title: The Third Side
    Author(s): William Ury, Joshua N. Weiss
    Link to: Webpage
    Publishing Organization: Third Side
    Year: 2007
    Description: This website describes the 10 different "third side" roles "ordinary" and official people, organizations, and even governments can play to try to prevent serious conflict from erupting, or bring about peace once it does.

Analysis

  • Title: Civil Society in Conflict Transformation: Ambivalence, Potentials and Challenges in Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation
    Author(s): Martina Fischer
    Larger Work: Berghoff Handbook
    Link to: Webpage
    Publishing Organization: Berghof Center for Constructive Conflict Management
    Year: 2006
    Description: This article focuses on the potential contributions of civil society actors for peacebuilding and conflict transformation.
  • Title: Part 6: Identifying Key Actors in Conflict Situations
    Author(s): eds. Thania Paffenholz, Luc Reychler
    Larger Work: Peace building: A Field Guide
    Publishing Organization: Lynne Rienner Publishers
    Year: 2001
  • Title: Conflict Histories Database
    Link to: Webpage
    Publishing Organization: International Crisis Group
    Year: 2007
    Description: The Conflict Histories database offers brief but detailed histories of the conflicts covered by Crisis Group analysts (for more information on Crisis Group's activities, see About us), compiled from publicly-available sources. The database contains information on over 50 countries, and is a useful complement to the CrisisWatch database, which provides up-to-date information on conflict developments in countries around the world.
  • Title: Conflicts Database
    Link to: Webpage
    Publishing Organization: Uppsala University
    Year: 2007
    Description: Crisis Group's conflict histories represent one view of a conflict's history at the time of writing. They are not a substitute for individual research or for the extensive professional literature associated with the majority of these conflicts, but they do give a quick overview of basic facts..
  • Title: Disputants (Stakeholders or First Parties)
    Author(s): Heidi Burgess
    Larger Work: Beyond Intractability
    Link to: Webpage
    Publishing Organization: University of Colorado Conflict Information Consortium
    Year: 2004
  • Title: Diaspora Communities and Civil Conflict Transformation
    Author(s): Wolfram Zunzer
    Larger Work: Berghoff Handbook
    Link to: Webpage
    Publishing Organization: Berghof Center
    Year: 2004
    Description: This working paper deals with the nexus of diaspora communities living in European host countries, specifically in Germany, and the transformation of protracted violent conflicts in a number of home countries, including Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Somalia and Afghanistan.
  • Title: Actors and parties Organizational Website Search
    Larger Work: Beyond Intractability
    Link to: Pre-configured Search
    Publishing Organization: University of Colorado Conflict Information Consortium
    Description: Links to articles on Conflict Actors and Parties posted by 100 leading SSTR organizations.
  • Title: Civil Society in Conflict Organizational Website Search
    Larger Work: Beyond Intractability
    Link to: Pre-configured Search
    Publishing Organization: University of Colorado Conflict Information Consortium
    Description: Links to articles on Civil Society posted by 100 leading SSTR organizations.
  • Title: International Non-State Actors Organizational Website Search
    Larger Work: Beyond Intractability
    Link to: Pre-configured Search
    Publishing Organization: University of Colorado Conflict Information Consortium
    Description: Links to articles on International Non-State Actors posted by 100 leading SSTR organizations.
  • Title: Additional Beyond Intractability Resources on: Understanding the Actors
    Link to: Webpage

Tools

  • Title: Mapping the Third Side
    Author(s): William Ury, Joshua N. Weiss
    Link to: Webpage
    Publishing Organization: Third Side.org
    Year: 2007
    Description: This page shows how to assess which "third side" roles are being filled in a conflict, and which are still needed.
  • Title: CONDUCTING A CONFLICT ASSESSMENT: A Framework for Strategy and Program Development
    Author(s): US Agency for International Development
    Link to: Webpage
    Publishing Organization: USAID
    Year: 2005
    Description: A detailed discussion of what conflict assessment is, why it is important, and how it is done, focusing especially on the development context.
  • Title: Mapping the Conflict
    Link to: Webpage
    Publishing Organization: Conflict Resolution Network
    Description: Although this is conflict mapping guide covers issues and other aspects of conflicts beyond parties, it is a pretty simple and clear example of how to assess parties and their interests/positions.
  • Title: Analyzing Conflicts
    Author(s): Hussein Solomon
    Link to: Webpage
    Publishing Organization: Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict
    Year: 1999
    Description: A short description of conflict analysis strategy in the African context.
  • Title: Use These Two Forms to Analyze Your Stakeholders
    Author(s): Lauri Elliot
    Link to: Webpage
    Publishing Organization: Tech Republic
    Year: 2001
    Description: Developed for commercial projects, these stakeholder assessment forms still have value for conflict settings.

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Education

  • Title: Conducting a Conflict Assessment
    Author(s): Thomas-Larmer, Jennifer and Lawrence Susskind.
    Larger Work: The Consensus Building Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Reaching Agreement
    Publishing Organization: Sage Publication Inc.
    Year: 1999
    Description: A basic "how-to" guide in the most comprehensive book on consensus building that is available.