Getting in
Subtitle: mediators' entry into the settlement of African conflicts
By: Mohammed O. Maundi ... [et al.].
Contributors: Maundi, Mohammed Omar.
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781929223626
Subjects: Mediation, International -- Case studies.; Political stability -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.; Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "This study of successful mediation in a half-dozen violent conflicts across the African continent focuses on a hitherto neglected dimension of mediation and the motivations of the parties in conflict - and of the mediators themselves - in initiating the mediation option. The "problem" of many journalistic accounts and scholarly analyses of conflict mediation is that they detail the mediation process in full swing but have largely neglected the crucial phase of mediators' entry into the destructive and disturbing mass violence in Burundi, Rwanda, the Congo, Sudan, West Africa, and the border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea. This collaboration of renowned scholars and a practitioner in conflict management and African politics seeks to draw wide-ranging and timely conclusions on the early stages of mediation from six case studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem; title: Rwanda, 1990-1992; title: Burundi, 1993-1998; title: Congo-Brazzaville, 1993-1999; title: Liberia, 1989-1996; title: Sudan, 1983-1993; title: Ethiopia-Eritrea, 1998-2000; title: Conclusions.