Taming Intractable Conflicts
Subtitle: Mediation in the Hardest Cases
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press
Published: July 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781929223558
Subjects: Conflict resolution; Counselling; International Relations - Diplomacy; Diplomatic negotiations in int; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; International Relations - General; General; Conflict management; Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes
First sentence: IN THE 1990's AND EARLY TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, negotiations brought an end to some of the world's most challenging and difficult conflicts.
Description: "The authors of this 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 stages: at the beginning of the engagement, when the going gets very rough, during the settlement negotiations, and in the postsettlement implementation stage."--BOOK JACKET.