About the Conflict Information Consortium
The University of Colorado Conflict Information Consortium, directed by Guy and Heidi Burgess, was founded in 1988 as a multidisciplinary center for research and teaching about conflict and its transformation. With its primary focus on difficult and intractable conflicts, the Consortium has pioneered efforts to use rapidly advancing information technologies to provide citizens in all walks of life with the information that they need to deal with conflicts more constructively.
Two outcomes of this work are CRInfo: The Conflict Resolution Information Source (www.CRinfo.org) and Beyond Intractability, the website of the Intractable Conflict Knowledge Base Project (www. BeyondIntractability.org). These systems, which were constructed with the help of more than three hundred experts, cover over six hundred conflict topics (often with succinct summaries as well as links to recommended Web, print, and audiovisual sources of more in-depth information). Also available are comprehensive bibliographies and interviews with distinguished scholars and practicioners.