Dan Jones, the author of the recent Nature article, featuring ICCCR's work on intractable conflict, just wrote a blog for the Earth Institute's State of the Planet. The blog post follows Peter Coleman's work on intractable conflict, and his co-establishment of the Dynamics of Conflicts group, which works to understand conflict using Dynamical Systems Theory.
  Read the blog here.
  Image: A demobilized child soldier in the Central African Republic. Credit: Pierre Holtz, UNICEF CAR, hdptcar/flickr