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Building upon Mitchell´s earlier work, The Structure of International Conflict, this volume surveys the field of conflict analysis and resolution in the twenty-first century, exploring the methods which people have sought to mitigate destructive processes including the creative and innovative new ways of resolving insoluble disputes.

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Foreword 1. Compulsion; Natural Born Killers? 2. Formation: Sources and Emergence 3. Classification; Intractable Conflicts 4. Perpetuation; Dynamics and Intractability 5. Prevention 6. Mitigation 7. Regulation: Conflict Within Limits 8. Institutionalisation 9. Termination I: Keeping the Peace 10. Termination II: Resolving the Issues 11. Creation; Towards Transformation 12. Reconciliation; Ending the Hatred Afterword

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"The Nature of Intractable Conflict is a valuable compendium, enriched by Mitchell´s pursuit of distilling relevant but over-researched topics. Moreover, his own insights scattered throughout the text links his survey of the subject of intractability with emerging trends in current scholarship, which makes this book a relevant signpost in new research." (Ian Niccolo V. Tobia, European Review of International Studies, Vol. 3 (3), 2016)

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Christopher Mitchell is an Emeritus Professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, USA. He has written extensively on informal mediation, track two facilitation and local level peace-building. In 1981 he published one of the first ever textbooks in the field, The Structure of International Conflict, to which this volume is a follow up.

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