International Negotiation and Mediation in Violent Conflict: The Changing Context of Peacemaking (Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management)

Hampson, Fen Osler

Crocker, Chester A.

Aall, Pamela

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A look at politics in Southern Africa discusses the white South Africans seeking support, African Marxists who still believe in the armed struggle, and other characters, including the Cuban leadership.

High Noon in Southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough Neighborhood

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

This collection of essays situates the study and practice of international mediation and peaceful settlement of disputes within a changing global context.  The book is organized around issues of concern to practitioners, including the broader regional, global, and institutional context of mediation and how this broader environment shapes the opportunities and prospects for successful mediation. A major theme is complexity, and how the complex contemporary context presents serious challenges to mediation. This environment describes a world where great-power rivalries and politics are coming back into play, and international and regional organizations are playing different roles and facing different kinds of constraints in the peaceful settlement of disputes. The first section discusses the changing international environment for conflict management and reflects on some of the challenges that this changing environment raises for addressing conflict. Part II focuses on the consequences of bringing new actors into third-party engagement and examines what may be harbingers for how we will attempt to resolve conflict in the future. The third section turns to the world of practice, and discusses mediation statecraft and how to employ it in this current international environment. The volume aims to situate the practice and study of mediation within this wider social and political context to better understand the opportunities and constraints of mediation in today’s world. The value of the book lies in its focus on complex and serious issues that challenge both mediators and scholars. This volume will be of much interest to students, practitioners, and policymakers in the area of international negotiation, mediation, conflict resolution and international relations.

When Somali gunmen killed 18 American Rangers in Mogadishu on October 3, 1993, public and congressional support for the American and UN missions in Somalia dropped dramatically. In fact, U.S. policymakers began to rethink commitments to peacemaking in Africa in general. Nevertheless, many African and U.S. specialists on African affairs--including the contributors to this volume--strongly urge the United States to continue active engagement with Africa and creatively support African initiatives to manage and resolve their own conflicts. This book brings together nine specialists from Africa and the United States--including former diplomats, academics, policymakers, and policy analysts--to assess ways to enhance the U.S. contribution to African efforts to prevent, manage, and resolve violent conflicts. The contributors conclude that U.S. initiatives can take a variety of forms and need not involve American troops. There is a new African willingness to assume responsibility, but African instutional and fanancial capabilities are severely limited. African initiatives therefore have little chance of success without significant and sustained international, and particularly American involvement.

African Conflict Resolution: The U.S. Role in Peacemaking

United States Inst of Peace Pr

Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases

Some conflicts seem to defy resolution. Marked by longevity, recurrent violence, and militant agendas, these intractable conflicts refuse to be settled either on the battlefield or at the negotiating table. The longer they fester, the stronger the international community's inclination to lose heart and to turn away. But, explain the authors of this provocative volume, effective mediation in intractable conflicts is possible―if the mediator knows what to do and when to do it. Written from the mediator's point of view, Taming Intractable Conflicts lays out the steps involved in tackling the most stubborn of conflicts. It first puts mediation in a larger context, exploring why mediators choose or decline to become involved, what happens when they get involved for the wrong reasons, and the impact of the mediator's institutional and political environment. It then discusses best mediation tradecraft at different stages: at the beginning of the engagement, when the going gets very rough, during the settlement negotiations, and in the post-settlement implementation stage. Forceful, concise, and highly readable, Taming Intractable Conflicts serves not only as a hands–on guide for would-be mediators but also as a powerful argument for students of conflict management that intractable conflicts are not beyond the reach of mediation.

Aall, Pamela R.

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Social Sciences

Grasping The Nettle: Analyzing Cases Of Intractable Conflict

Analyzes the defining characteristics and underlying dynamics of intractable conflicts.

Grasping the Nettle: Analyzing Cases of Intractable Conflict

Analyzes the defining characteristics and underlying dynamics of intractable conflicts.

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International Negotiation and Mediation in Violent Conflict: The Changing Context of Peacemaking (Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management)

High Noon in Southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough Neighborhood

International Negotiation and Mediation in Violent Conflict: The Changing Context of Peacemaking (Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management)

International Negotiation and Mediation in Violent Conflict: The Changing Context of Peacemaking (Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management)

African Conflict Resolution: The U.S. Role in Peacemaking

Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases

Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases

Grasping the Nettle: Analyzing Cases of Intractable Conflict

Grasping The Nettle: Analyzing Cases Of Intractable Conflict