A Conflict in Mozambique - The Five Percent Problem
About 5 percent of the more difficult conflicts seem to become intractable, unsolvable. Columbia University Professor Peter T. Coleman discusses why these 5 percent problems seem so unsolvable and offers a few helpful ways to think about them in order to reach a solution.
This video shares some lessons about ending long-term conflicts from the bloody, 16 year civil war in Mozambique, which is a great example of a country where the impossible happened -- peace broke out.