Much can be learned through the examination of contrasting interpretations of major conflict-related news stories. This Special Search returns results from 15 major English-language news outlets, carefully chosen to represent a wide variety of viewpoints. Sources include the Jerusalem Post, the New York Times, Reuters, Xinhua, and Al Jazeera.
Opinions and editorials from major news sources can provide valuable insight. The Opinions and Editorials Special Search returns up-to-date opinion and editorial pieces from a carefully-selected group of sources, including the Globe and Mail, the Asia Times, and the New York Times.
Audio versions of printed news reports — as well as stand-alone podcasts on a wide variety of topics — have proliferated on the Web. The Podcasts and Audio Files Special Search returns up-to-date results for audio content from a number of leading news sources, including National Public Radio, Voice of America, and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Publishers and Distributors
Search online publication listings from conflict resolution-related publishers. (This provides more up-to-date, but less selective and comprehensive, coverage than the search tools on Beyond Intractability and CRInfo (our partner site).
This Special Search returns up-to-date results from over 850 websites of organizations that hold prominent positions in the field of alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
Organizations involved in various types of conflict prevention, peacebuilding, and SSTR & PO (security, stabilization, transition, and reconstruction and peace operations) often operate almost exclusively within their own, internal organizational structure and hierarchy. The result is a "stovepiping" effect that can undermine the effectiveness of peace operations by making it difficult for governmental and nongovernmental as well as military and civilian organizations to identify and take advantage of cooperative opportunities. In order to help overcome this problem, the Beyond Intractability "Stovepipe Browser" continually indexes the websites of organizations engaged in peace-related operations to identify Web pages from organizations in the various different "stovepipes" that seem to address similar issues. The result is an initial collection of continually updated links to information about the ways in which different organizations address 27 key conflict topics. The Stovepipe Browser also includes a Special Search, which returns results from among the websites of these specially-selected organizations.
Conflict Research Consortium Search
Search just the Conflict Research Consortium websites.
The University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium operates several large websites, each with its own original materials. This Special Search returns up-to-date results from CRInfo, Beyond Intractability, and conflict.colorado.edu.
The centerpiece of Beyond Intractability is a knowledge base of over 350 encyclopedia-type essays and articles on topics related to intractable conflict. This Special Search returns up-to-date results from the Beyond Intractability knowledge base.
CRInfo, the partner site to Beyond Intractability, offers many original resources, including essays on conflict-related topics and summaries of books and articles. This Special Search returns up-to-date results from the CRInfo website.
The Beyond Intractability Knowledge Base Project Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess, Co-Directors and Editors c/o Conflict Information Consortium(Formerly Conflict Research Consortium), University of Colorado Campus Box 580, Boulder, CO 80309 Phone: (303) 492-1635; Fax: (303) 492-2154; Contact
