What They Are and Why We Have Them

One of the problems with large knowledge bases is that they get so big that they are difficult to navigate. That's been a problem with BI for a long time — one we are forever (it seems) trying to address. One way to deal with this issue is to create sub-sections of the BI Knowledge Base focused on particular topics or user groups. These "User Guides" highlight a subset of BI materials (and external materials related to BI topics) of likely interest to particular audiences or focused on particular broad topics.

Current User Guides

Guides for Particular User Groups

• Human Rights Workers
  Information for human rights workers who are dealing with situations involving intractable conflicts.
• Religious Leaders and Workers
  Information for and about faith-based approaches to peacebuilding and conflict transformation.
• Journalists
  Resources for reporters seeking to better understand and explain intractable conflicts.
• Third Siders
  The Third Side initiative highlights ways that people in every social role can make a difference. Information is available to help people in the following roles:
  • Arbiters
  • Bridge Builders
  • Equalizers
  • Healers
  • Mediators
  • Peacekeepers
  • Providers
  • Referees
  • Teachers
  • Witnesses

Guides for Particular Topic Areas

• Civil Rights Mediation
  Information about civil rights mediation efforts, including oral histories, from the Civil Rights Mediation Oral History Project
• Domestic Violence
  Information for people who are experiencing (or have experienced) domestic violence, as well as for family and friends of domestic violence survivors who want to know how they can help.
• Fostering a Sense of Legitimacy
  This collection of user guides focuses on legitimacy, accountability, and transparency.
  • For Educators and Trainers
  • For Practitioners
  • For Researchers
• How to Stop Fighting
  A practical, seven-step tutorial for people involved in relationship conflicts.
• Identity Conflicts
  Information for people involved in ethnic, racial, religious, gender, or other conflicts involving identity issues.
• Limiting Violence and Intimidation
  This collection of user guides presents foundational information on the prevention of violence in the international arena.
  • For Educators and Trainers
  • For Practitioners
    • Understanding the Causes of Violence
    • Early Warning Indicators
    • Violence Prevention Steps
    • Violence-Limiting Tools
    • Peacemaking and Peacekeeping Strategies
    • Peacebuilding and Reconciliation Strategies
  • For Researchers
• Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
  Resources for people seeking to understand post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding efforts.
• Protecting Individual and Group Rights
  This collection of user guides focuses on human rights — what they are, how they evolved, the reasons why these rights are violated, and what can be done to prevent abuses or respond to them once they have occurred.
  • Educators and Trainers
  • Practitioners
  • Researchers
• Relationship Conflicts
  A practical guide prepared by our sister project (CRInfo), highlighting ways of dealing with difficult relationship problems.
• Transitional Justice
  Information for people interested in learning about forms of jurisprudence that may be employed by a government or society after it undergoes a major transition (such as democratization), in order to respond to crimes committed by a former regime or by individuals affiliated with it.

Conflict Advice: Checklists of Things to Think About

For people struggling with difficult conflicts, our checklists highlight conflict dynamics that are helpful to understand, as well as options for dealing with common problems.

• International Conflict, Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict Stabilization
  • For Intermediaries
  • For Adversaries
• Public Policy
  • For Intermediaries
  • For Adversaries
• Workplace / Organizational Conflict
  • For Intermediaries
  • Adversaries
• Interpersonal Conflict
  • For Intermediaries
  • For Adversaries

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