Strategic Assessments believes that public attitudes to international conflicts, and the public willingness to support conflict resolution policies, are often framed not only by governments, but by advocacy organizations, celebrities, movies, literary works, and journalists as well.  Attempts to resolve conflicts however tend to be segmented.  Groups or organizations may work on one element but not others, rarely recognizing or responding to the inter-related nature of each field’s efforts.  Strategic Assessments believes that it benefits any conflict resolution effort to have the same level of expert legal and policy advice shared with diplomats as well as producers; with journalists as well as activists; with authors as well as advocacy groups.  Through such efforts, Strategic Assessments’ believes that popular frustration with a particular conflict, most often emphasized by myths such as “ancient ethnic hatreds;” “tribal warfare;” “biblical conflicts,” etc., can be transformed into popular engagement and support for conflict resolution methodologies. 

In this effort, Strategic Assessments works to create an intersection between public diplomacy and public entertainment and between advocacy and education.

Strategic Assessments is currently working with the Save Darfur Coallition [link to www.SaveDarfur.org] to shift international diplomacy from management of the genocide in Darfur , Sudan to active engagement in quickly bringing the conflict to an end through a revised peace agreement among the stakeholders.

Strategic Assessments also continues to work with broader Middle East peace themes through the creation of Fair Play Media, an effort to promote narratives conducive to public involvement and conflict resolution in a variety of media formats. 

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