The Knowledge Base's topic-oriented access tools are supplemented by a continually expanding series of case studies and stories describing actual conflict situations. In many cases, these materials are accompanied by links to Knowledge Base resources, providing additional, interpretive information.

• Annotated Conflict Cases
  The Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission | A Civil Alternative: An Evaluation of the IOM KPC Program | Creating a Sacred Space: Cuban Reconciliation and the Catholic Church | The Darfur Region of the Sudan | The Ethiopia-Eritrea Peace Process: Teetering on the Brink | Ethnic Conflict Management in Africa: A Comparative Case Study of Nigeria and South Africa | Globalization | Peacebuilding in Tajikistan | Reconciliation in Bosnia | Red / Blue Polarization | Labor Conflicts: The Case of Two Supermarket Strikes
• Peacebuilder Profiles and Personal Reflections
  The annotated case studies are supplemented by less formal conflict reflections from people involved in difficult conflicts.
• Conflict News
  The latest news on more than 60 key conflict topics.
• Expert Interviews
  over 100 hours of online audio (with transcripts) featuring stories from 70+ experts in the field.
• Examples
  Virtually all of the topic-oriented articles in the Knowledge Base contain links to examples illustrating their concepts.

Knowledge Base tools designed to support both students and teachers include:

• Student Conflict Research Tools
  Beyond Intractability search, articles, book and article summaries, interviews, newspaper articles, and searchable bibliographies of more than 4,000 Web and print publications provide a one-stop resource center that students can use to thoroughly investigate a full range of conflict topics.
• Exercises and Assignments
  A growing collection of free online assignments and exercises includes simulation exercises and an online conflict research guide.
• Group Projects: A Conflict Resolution Guide for Students
  Resources, helpful advice, and guidelines for successfully completing a group project, while constructively handling conflicts that may arise among the group members.
• Student Contributor Program
  This program asks students, as part of their term paper assignment, to write needed segments of the Knowledge Base. Quality papers would be published as part of the system, giving students recognition and a sense that they are making a meaningful contribution.
• Online Education and Training Courses
  A new online course, Dealing Constructively with Intractable Conflicts (DCIC), is now available. Based on Beyond Intractability and drawing heavily from Knowledge Base materials, the course is designed to teach students about the nature and causes of intractable conflicts, as well as methods for transforming them.
• Resources for Educators
  We offer a free, build-your-own virtual textbook program that allows instructors to redesign their texts as often as they want. Online expert interviews, each 30-60 minutes in duration, are also available for use as virtual "guest lecturers."
• Working With Strong Emotions in the Classroom: A Guide for Teachers and Students
  Information and resources that teachers and students can use to prepare themselves for the highly-emotional exchanges — both expected and unexpected — that may occur in a classroom setting.

Special editions of the Knowledge Base highlight resources likely to be especially useful to people in particular conflict roles. Contact us to find out about creating a new special edition focused on your conflict area.

• Civil Rights Mediation
  Information about civil rights mediation efforts, including oral histories, online exercises, and resource materials.
• Identity Conflicts
  Information for people involved in ethnic, racial, religious, gender, or other conflicts involving identity issues.
• Journalism
  Resources for reporters seeking to better understand and explain intractable conflicts.
• Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
  Resources for people seeking to understand post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding efforts.
• Religious Leaders and Workers
  Information for and about faith-based approaches to peacebuilding and conflict transformation.
• Third Side
  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
• 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.

• Civil Rights Mediation Oral History Project
  Richard Salem, Conflict Management Initiatives with the Conflict Research Consortium
• CRInfo
  The Conflict Resolution Information Source
• Peace Frontiers
  Find out about our new, collaborative effort to outline a 20+ year plan for addressing the next generation of conflict challenges.
• Dealing with Intractable Conflict in the United States
  Máire Dugan and Joan Walker Scott
• Principles of Practice for Transforming Race Relations
  Mark Chupp
• Track One - Track Two Cooperation
  Susan Allen Nan and Andrea Strimling
• What We Don't Know Can Help Us: Eliciting Out-of-Discipline Knowledge for Work with Intractable Conflicts
  Jennifer Goldman and Peter Coleman