“CRS Did the Impossible. Now It Is Gone. Can Anyone Else Fill Its Shoes?”

In a powerful “Beyond Intractability” substack post, Heidi and Guy Burgess offer a compelling narrative of CRS’s historical contributions to America, why its closing matters, and what the Burgesses, the Civil Rights Mediation Oral History Project, and the Divided Community Project are doing to keep alive CRS’s institutional and experiential memory, especially “the knowledge and skills of its conciliators and directors.

“CRS Did the Impossible. Now It Is Gone. Can Anyone Else Fill Its Shoes?” | Beyond Intractability, Dec. 1, 2025