Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict

Ury, the Harvard negotiator behind Getting to Past No and decades of mediation work from Camp David to Colombia's peace talks, uses this book to distill a career's worth of field experience into a broader theory of conflict at a moment when polarization and war dominate headlines. Reviewers have noted the book leans heavily on autobiography and high-profile anecdotes, sitting across from guerrilla leaders, corporate rivals, feuding family members, to argue that a "third side" can reframe even entrenched disputes. Some readers find the repetition of his core framework wearing across the book's length, but the throughline is a genuinely lived conviction.