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October 28, 2020
The Basics of Win-Win / Win-Lose / Lose-Lose Situations Morton Deutsch continues his discussion of what makes people be competitive or cooperative, and describes the results of those choices. Win-Win, Win-Lose, and Lose-Lose are game theory terms that refer to the...
Originally Published July, 2003; Current Implications section added by Heidi Burgess in April 2017.What Is Moral Conflict?Current ImplicationsThe 2017 Presidential election in the United States was a "wake up call" for many people. Many of us were not aware...
The University of Colorado Conflict Information Consortium, directed by Guy and Heidi Burgess, was founded in 1988 with a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. It was--and still is--a multi-disciplinary center for research and teaching about...
Continued from Part 1.Everyone has a role to play in addressing the intractable conflict problem. The course of history will be determined by the cumulative decisions of people throughout society and not just the actions of a few leaders (though they obviously can...
SynopsisThis introduction to the Conflict Frontiers MOOS (Massive Open Online Seminar) explains its history and the philosophy behind it, as well as a little bit about how to use it. Topics addressed include an introduction to the intractable conflict problem,...
Current ImplicationsIn the "Core Concepts" unit of our Conflict Fundamentals Massive Open Online Seminar (MOOS), we introduced the notion of "reconciliation" and examined John Paul Lederach's notion that reconciliation occurs through the meeting of 'peace, justice,...
SynopsisThis is the second in the business as usual” series--this one examining the notion that conflict --even war-- is inevitable, conflicts are typically win-lose, and compromise is a "dirty word." We examine a Pew poll which illustrates assumptions about...
Intractable Conflict is THE #1 Problem We FaceWe believe that society's chronic inability to constructively handle intractable conflict constitutes a threat to human welfare that is at least as serious as that posed by climate change, infectious disease, or any of...
Synopsis This video examines the common misconception that conflicts should be handled "rationally," and that emotions should be minimized, ignored or overridden. Emotions and other non-rational thought processes are an inherent part of all conflicts and decision...
Synopsis This video starts with a description of an old Jules Fieffer cartoon that illustrates what we call "I'll-fight -you- for-it rules" --the notion that you can get what you want by fighting for it and the most powerful wins (a power-over" approach.)This was...
SynopsisThis 7- minute video starts to address a question we often hear from our students--why do we (the US or the world) have so many serious problems that we can't seem to address successfully?Our answer is that all of our big problems are, at their core, conflict...
Continued from Part 1.That's why we structured this as a seminar that will play out over a series of months and hopefully we will get a lot of people thinking about this--not because there's a simple solution that were trying to convey--but rather a set of ideas and...