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Challenge 19
We must find limit ways to
LIMIT CONFLICT INTERVENTION COSTS
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Intense competition for scarce financial resources inevitably limits what is possible. Effective cost minimization efforts will make it possible to do more. This is an area that has received far too little attention from the conflict resolution field. The field needs to understand that the demand for its services is ultimately limited by price and the benefits provided. If people can't afford it, they won't be able to buy it, no matter how much they might want it. Given the enormous scale of society-wide, intractable conflicts, the volume of interventions required for success is likely to be very large. If we can't bring the price down, it's going to be very hard, and perhaps impossible, to raise the needed funds.
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Meeting the Challenge: What We Now Know
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The most promising strategies involve building capacity to the point where people can provide their own conflict handling services on a do-it-yourself basis. Here, online programs like those being developed by Beyond Intractability offer enormous cost advantages.
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- Capacity Building In order to negotiate effectively, parties sometimes need to build their own or others' capacity to respond to their situation effectively by building knowledge, providing resources, or both.
- Action Evaluation
Action Evaluation (AE), is an innovative method that uses social and computer technology to define, promote, and assess success in complex social interventions. It is a direct response to recurrent questions about the effectiveness of conflict-resolution.
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