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International Online Training Program On Intractable Conflict

Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado, USA

On-Line Discussions, Listserver, and Contributed Documents


On-Line Discussions

One of the goals for this online training program is the establishment of a mechanism through which system users can engage in a global conversation about their ideas concerning the advantages and disadvantages of alternative strategies for dealing with specific conflict problems.  Our goal is for participants to contribute real world stories about the conflict problems that they have encountered, the strategies that they have used in attempting to deal with these problems, and the results of these efforts. To do this we have established a series of on-line discussion groups, one for each major component of the training program.  We encourage users to  address topics such as the following:

When users log into the system they finds a table of contents in outline form with links to contributed discussion items.  To continue a discussion on a particular topic all users have to do is go to the appropriate table of contents entry and follow the directions for inserting comments. These comments can be written in the text editing window provided or they can be cut and pasted from your word processor. You can also include links to other web accessible documents such as those found on the On-line Documents Page discussed below. The system also automatically enters a users e-mail address so that someone interested in their comments can respond to them directly. You will also note that it is very easy to start completely new discussion topics.

To go to the discussion groups click here.


List Server

Another on-line discussion tool is a simple list server. It can be thought of as a community mailing list in which all members of the community can easily e-mail all other members of the community. Two things make this different from the thousands of junk mailing lists which plague our lives. First, participants make a conscious (and revocable) decision to join the list because they want to receive the information it provides. Second, participants agree to only send messages that are likely to interest list members. Possible list serve messages include: publication announcements, conference announcements, calls for papers, inquiries about job opportunities for graduating students, calls for collaborators, requests for book recommendations, etc. When replying to a list serve message, it is best to reply to the specific individual sending the message unless it is felt that others are likely to be interested in the response.

Send the following message: subscribe conflict_training <your name>

Send it to this address: listproc@lists.colorado.edu

Click here for more information about list serve commands.  Just in case you lose it, this is the document you receive when you sign-up.

Click here for other list serves issue might be interested in joining.


Online Documents Page

Still another discussion tool is an online documents page on which participants can post the following types of information:

You can also send us materials on a disk or as an e-mail attachment and we will post it. If you do this, we request that you follow our Guidelines for Web Contributors. In addition, we would like a title and a short, two or three line description of each item to be posted.

To go to this on-line documents page click here. This online documents page is set up in a way which allows full-text searching of the online documents.   Click here for this service.  To be added.


Links Page

If you have one or more web links that are likely to be of interest to training program users you can send them to us in an e-mail message.   Each link should have a short title and a two line description.  You can also post links to the links section of the discussion group.

To go to the links page click here


Copyright ©1998 Conflict Research Consortium  -- Contact: crc@colorado.edu