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International Online Training Program On Intractable Conflict

Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado, USA

Downloading A Complete Version of the Training Program

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Online time can be dramatically reduced and system speed can be greatly enhanced by downloading a complete version of the training program and installing it on you hard disk where you can browse it with your browser (e.g. Netscape or Explorer).  You will, however, still have to go online to follow the training program's links to other web-accessible files. 

Using the training program in this way requires approximately 11 megabytes of hard disk space.  Since the files are in compressed "zip" format, you only have to download 2.5 megabytes, however.)

In order to download the systenm following steps.

  1. Download the following files:
    1. peace.zip -- 711KB
    2. peace_essay.ZIP -- 39KB
    3. peace_example.ZIP -- 288KB
    4. peace_problem.ZIP -- 626KB
    5. peace_treatment.ZIP -- 511KB
  2. If you don't have a copy of a "zip" utility you will need to download one.   You can download and install this version of WinZip for Windows 95/98.  This is a shareware program.  Use can use it for free to unzip the training program.  If you want to keep and use the program the authors ask you to register it and pay a small fee.  If you can't afford to do this the program will continue to work.
  3. Create the following directories on your computer:
    1. peace
    2. peace\essay
    3. peace\example
    4. peace\problem
    5. peace\treatment
  4. Unzip the files into the appropriate directory as follows
    1. peace.zip goes to peace peace
    2. peace_essay.ZIP goes to peace\essay
    3. peace_example.ZIP goes to peace\example
    4. peace_problem.ZIP goes to peace\problem
    5. peace_treatment.ZIP goes to peace\treatment
  5. While you will need a password to unzip the files these passwords are available for free.  All you have to do is e-mail us and ask us for a password. This procedure allows us to keep track of who is using the system in a this way and make sure that they get system updates.
  6. Once the files are installed start your browser  open the file peace/index.html and it should work just like you are online. Try Open or Open Page in the File Menu.
  7. If you have problems let us know.