num_pages: 240
description: The authors of this provocative volume argue that intractable conflicts are not impervious to effective mediation—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 at the beginning of the engagement, when the going gets very rough, during the settlement negotiations, and in the postsettlement implementation stage.
language: English
title: Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases
titlecomplete: Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases
genres: Politics
ratings_count: 19
publisher: United States Inst of Peace Pr