Vimeo YouTube Transition Page

Open each of the videos on the Frontiers Syllabus in BI and Vimeo and make the series of changes described below.  These videos are listed in order on the vimeo-youtube-transition.xlsx spreadsheet. You don't have to do this for all of the Vimeo videos – only the ones on the spreadsheet. There are also a couple of videos where I've already made changes as part of the process of figuring out what to do. You should check and make sure that I changed everything needs to be changed (which I probably didn't).

Be careful when doing this. Vimeo does not have an easy "undo" function.  If something goes wrong or if you're not sure about it let me know immediately and we will figure out how to fix it. The best way to get me is to call 303-819-6748. Also, when you start doing this for the first time let me know and I'll try to be available in case questions come up.  And, I'll check the first few to make sure that I didn't stupidly leave something out of the directions.

Obviously, to do this you will need access to the Vimeo system: https://vimeo.com and, especially, the video management page: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos. The username to use is bi@beyondintractability.org. Call me for the password. You will also need to be logged into the BI system. 

Unfortunately, the process of making the needed changes is rather cumbersome.  Still, this is the most efficient procedure that I've been able to figure out.  Read through these directions and look at the demo video that shows me going through all of the steps and then let me know if you have any questions.   Hopefully, it will give you a chance to learn a bit more about how systems like this actually work.  And, I would be happy to explain things further if you're interested.

1. Click on the "link" in the "link column" on the spreadsheet to open the BI post for each video.
2. Click "Edit" to edit the video's post on BI.
3. The first thing that we want to do is tell BI visitors that they can download the videos from Vimeo for offline watching. 
4. To do this you need to click on the "source" button in the upper right-hand corner of the BI edit window.  This will let you into the source code.  
5. What you want to do is locate the code that creates the video player. It should be right near the top and look almost exactly like this.

   <div class="e-mbi-video"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/258681366" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="300"></iframe></div>

6. In order to add a sentence that says you can "You can download this video from Vimeo for off-line viewing" you need to change the code by adding the red section below. As you might suspect, the program is very persnickety about where this has to be placed between the </iframe> and the </div>. 

   <div class="e-mbi-video"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/258681366" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="300"></iframe><p class="ctr-no-margin no-space"><em>You can <a href="https://vimeo.com/258681366">download this video</a> from Vimeo for offline viewing.</em></p></div>

   You also need to copy the green Vimeo video number into the new code to replace the red highlighted number. The number in the new section needs to match the number in the original section.

   Since this is the only change to the BI page save that page now.
    

7. Also record this number in the Vimeo number column on the spreadsheet.
8. The next step is to open the video on Vimeo. To do this substitute the number For the video that you're working on in this url:

   https://vimeo.com/manage/221479131/general
    

9. This will take you to the "General" manage video page for that video.
10. Vimeo's system has several pages For managing each video. You access these video management pages from the links in the left-hand column marked with a ">". Once you've selected a page/section the ">" turns into a down arrow "\/" and you have links to subsections.  The information is entered in the second from the left-hand column and you may need to scroll up or down to get the section that you want.
11. In the "general" section you want to make the following changes:
    1. Replace the current cryptic and hyphenated title with the formal title of the post. You can get this from Column C of the spreadsheet.
    2. Add a description which you can get from Column G on the spreadsheet.
    3. Add to the description the following line:

       See this video's page on Beyond Intractability for photo credits, transcript, copyrights, and more information about our videos and other resources: Insert the Video's URL on BI here (for example: https://www.beyondintractability.org/frontiers/cci-full-video).

    4. In the "privacy / who can watch section," replace "hide this video from Vimeo" with "anyone" can watch.
    5. Down lower, click "people can download this video" so that the switch icon turns blue.
    6. Do the same for "people can add to collections"
    7. Going down further, under "channels" click Beyond Intractability (or something like Beyond Intractability MOOS Videos (I may be changing the name of the channel.)
    8. Leave all other settings unchanged
    9. Finally, you have to click save.
12. Next, click on "interaction tools" section in the left-hand column.
    1. Under "End Screen" click on the little pencil, then click the down arrow on the right side of the box, then click "More Videos," Under "From" click the down arrow and select "Channel Videos," finally click "Add" at the bottom.
    2. Click "Save" again.
    3. At the message about the "outro preset" click ok
13. Next, click on the "Distribution" section in the right column,
    1. In the social section you should already be "connected" to YouTube.  (Don't connect with Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.)
    2. Click "Publish"
    3. On the next screen check the title and description (which should be fine).
    4. Add the following tags: conflict resolution, intractable conflict, peacebuilding, saving democracy, polarization
    5. Under privacy, click Public
    6. Under category, click Education
    7. Click "next"
    8. On the ready to publish screen click "next"
    9. Back in the Vimeo "distribution" section scroll down to tags and enter the tags listed below, one at a time using the "+", paste the tag in the box, hit the blue "+" and then "Add" until you have all four tags entered.
       1. These are the tags: conflict resolution, intractable conflict, peacebuilding, saving democracy, polarization
    10. Scroll further down and click "all audiences"
    11. Leave the setting at "no creative Commons license"
    12. Click save
14. ​You are done and ready for the next one.
     

 

 

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Joint Statement Cover Letter Master

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We hope you can find the time to look at the appended letter and attached supporting documents.

At a time when enormously destructive conflicts seem to be spinning out of control everywhere,   We have been trying to figure out what those of us with conflict-related expertise might be able to do to more effectively bring our collective insights to bear on the At a time when enormously destructive conflicts which seem to be spinning out of control almost everywhere., problem.  In doing this, we were initially motivated by the joint letter drafted by Lou Kriesberg and Robert Rubenstein entitled "For Better Foreign Policies" which was signed by 124 scholars and practitioners.

Building on their idea, we are circulating the attached draft of a proposed statement that looks at the broader problems of fear, hatred, extreme polarization, growing authoritarianism, and intractable conflict more broadly.  Our goal, in soliciting broad support and then widely publicizing the statement, would be to initiate a broad-based examination of strategies to dramatically improve society's ability to constructively handle complex, large-scale, intractable conflicts.

Please let us know what you think about this idea, and tell us about any other efforts to address these problems that you know of. (We want to join forces wherever possible, we are not trying to assert dominance over other similar efforts.)

Guy and Heidi

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Letter to be appended to the email and included as a separate PDF. Format this in a way that makes the fact that this is the main letter obvious and places the above section as clearly something of a note.

This letter and accompanying documents ask your advice regarding a draft "Joint Statement" outlining something that we think that those of us with a background in conflict-related fields could do to help counter deepening political divisions, the alarming successes of aspiring authoritarians, the almost total breakdown of society's ability to wisely and equitably address any of today's big problems, and, of course, the risk that all of this could escalate into large-scale and potentially catastrophic violence.  

While the severity of these problems is widely recognized, the vast majority of the effort to address these problems has so far been focused on the pursuit of a decisive victory over the "other" side. While there are certainly cases where partisan victory would be a step in the right direction  (by defeating aspiring authoritarians, for example), we need to recognize that our problems go much deeper than individual leaders.  We believe that today's political turmoil is a symptom of a much larger and more serious problem — the inability of 21st-century democracies to constructively handle the many facets of complex, large-scale, intractable conflict

Against this backdrop, current efforts to bring the proven insights of the conflict, peacebuilding, and related fields to bear on the problem do not seem close to reversing the dismal trends faced by so many societies. Also lacking are the investments needed to advance these fields. While our field has become expert in working in small groups, we have much to learn about meeting the difficult challenges posed by the scale and staggering social and psychological complexity of today's globally-interconnected societies. We also need much more effective ways of countering the widespread use of extremely effective divide-and-conquer tactics by aspiring authoritarians and plutocrats. Finally, we need better ways of persuading those who profit from the "destructive-conflict-as-usual" industrial complex to support more constructive approaches to problem solving. 

Much as our climate change colleagues have been doing for decades, those of us with conflict-related expertise have an obligation to help the larger society understand the threats posed by destructive conflict practices and the importance of taking available and realistic steps to limit those threats. As a step toward doing this, we are circulating the attached, draft "Joint Statement" calling attention to the problem and soliciting support for efforts to address it. 

As will quickly be evident, we see the intractable conflict challenge as extremely daunting – one that demands a long-term effort comparable in scope to ongoing efforts to address climate change.  Obviously, mobilizing such an effort will take decades, at least.  Our immediate goal is much more modest.  We simply want to get a lot more people to recognize the seriousness of the intractable conflict problem and start thinking about, taking, and supporting efforts to address it.

At the moment, we are collecting suggestions for improving the draft Joint Statement.  Once we finalize a clear and compelling statement of the problem and the need for action, we plan to circulate it widely in hopes of persuading large numbers of people to offer their support and, more importantly, commit to doing what they can to advance the effort.  Our hope is that this will contribute to and help foster a series of initiatives that will start the process of mobilizing the kind of sophisticated and large-scale effort that will be required to start bending the arc of history in a more positive direction. We think, for example, that an important, early step would be to convene a small conference to develop this idea through a series of in-depth, small group discussions and then publish a more detailed call for action.

We want to emphasize that we do not see this as a Beyond Intractability effort. We envision, for ourselves, only a modest role in getting this started.  After that, it will be up to the people we hope to recruit to take the next steps.  Our primary focus (in our semi-retirement years) is going to remain on Beyond Intractability (www.beyondintractability.org) and its extensive and growing series of online learning materials describing what we see as the nature of the intractable conflict problem and the most promising strategies for addressing it.

At this point, we have a number of questions for you:

• In principle, does this seem like an effort worth pursuing? 
• Do you have any specific suggestions for improving either the substance or the language of our initial draft documents? 
• Are you aware of people working on similar or overlapping efforts who we should contact with the goal of being as mutually supportive as possible?
• Are there other people who you think we should contact at this draft stage?
• Assuming that you are in agreement on the final language, would your and/or your organization be interested in co-sponsoring a final statement and distributing it through your networks? (If there is interest, we would create a new website and URL for the project to make it clear to all that sponsors are not endorsing anything further than the Joint Statement.)
• Might you be interested in helping us develop and pursue this idea? If so, what might you be interested in doing?
• Are you aware of individuals or funding organizations who might be willing to support our initial effort to develop and publicize the idea?

If you are so inclined, we would appreciate any support you might be able to offer. You can contribute financially to the project through our account with the University of Colorado Foundation (https://www.beyondintractability.org/donate).

Thanks for taking the time to look at this. We hope that you will get involved. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to do whatever we can to mobilize a much larger effort to address the conflict problems that are at the core of so many of society's disturbing trends. 

Guy and Heidi
 

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A joint call for a dramatic expansion of efforts to improve society's ability to constructively address the full scale and complexity of the challenges posed by destructive conflicts

May 2019 Draft -- v1.2

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Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess
 

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Please use this form to privately send us your comments and suggestions on the Constructive Conflict Initiative and to indicate your willingness to participate further (which can mean simply endorsing the initiative's basic premise, or participating in next-step activities).  All form submissions are emailed  to us immediately upon receipt, so this is a fast way to contact us. We will try to respond quickly.  In addition, you can use our discussion board system to participate in an online, Public Discussion about the Initiative. Thank you!

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We have found most of the feedback we've received to date to be very thoughtful and valuable, and we'd like to share it as we work with a much larger group as we all decide where to take this Initiative from here. We have not been posting all comments, just those that are likely to be of general interest. To do this, we would like permission to share your ideas on our growing Feedback Summary page. In doing so, we will not attribute your responses to you without your explicit permission.  If we have permission to use your name, we will add it. If you would prefer that we not post any version of your comments we, of course, will not. 

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If you are so inclined, we would appreciate any support you might be able to offer. You can use a credit card to contribute financially to the project through the Beyond Intractability Project Fund at the University of Colorado Foundation. More information about the donation process and options in found on our Donations page. 

Thanks for taking the time to look at this. We hope that you will get involved. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to do whatever we can to mobilize a much larger effort to address the conflict problems that are at the core of so many of society's disturbing trends

 

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All participants are asked to follow a number of posting guidelines related to civility and substantive content.  We ask everyone to avoid:

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After you submit this form, we will set up a user account for you.  You should expect an email with details within the next day or so (perhaps a bit longer on weekends and holidays) as we are doing this by hand, not automatically.  We look forward to hearing your contributions to what should be a very interesting series of discussions.  Welcome to the MOOS!

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