How can the limits of resolution-based approaches be overcome?
The limitations of resolution-based approaches have led the Consortium to pursue an alternative strategy. We begin with the belief that intense, long-term conflicts over difficult moral and distributional issues are inevitable and appropriate. What is not inevitable, we believe, is the destructiveness commonly associated with these confrontations. Thus, the primary goal of our work has been the identification and dissemination of information about realistic steps that adversaries and intermediaries can take to increase the constructiveness of these confrontations. We believe that this subtle reframing of the basic conflict problem can substantially increase the ability of the field to limit the destructive aspects of intractable conflicts, while supporting the positive functions of conflict for the parties and for society as a whole. What are the advantages of an incremental strategy? Our approach has involved an incremental strategy in which we have systematically identified problemat
