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Crisis managers but not conflict resolvers: Mediating ethnic intrastate conflict in Africa

Quinn, David; Wilkenfeld, Jonathan; Eralp, Pelin; Asal, … - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 30 (2013) 4, pp. 387-406

of protracted conflicts in Africa during the post-Cold War eraâ€”and one approach to interventionâ€”mediation. We also … view mediation as a multidimensional strategic process, and we test a series of hypotheses linking specific mediation … Intrastate Crises that is focused on uncovering the dynamics of successful mediation efforts during crisis situations at the …

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Fear of rejection: The puzzle of unaccepted mediation offers in international conflict

Melin, Molly M.; Gartner, Scott Sigmund; Bercovitch, Jacob - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 30 (2013) 4, pp. 354-368

How do factors that influence mediation offers affect belligerent behavior? The circumstances that attract potential … mediators are not the same as those that make mediation desirable to belligerents. Third parties offer mediation when the … conflict is intense, generation of an agreement is likely and they have ties to the conflict. However, mediation is less …

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Third Party Characteristics, Territory and the Mediation of Militarized Interstate Disputes

Frazier, Derrick V. - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 23 (2006) 4, pp. 267-284

third party initiated mediation. My findings suggest that previous arguments regarding territorial disputes and mediation …

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A Terminal Crisis? Examining the Breakdown of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Dispute Resolution Process

Pratt, Martin - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 23 (2006) 4, pp. 329-341

This case study examines the breakdown of the dispute resolution process that was intended to lay the foundations for a reconciliation between Eritrea and Ethiopia following their bitter border war of 1998 to 2000. The paper identifies general lessons for future third party settlements. In...

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Democratic Communities and Third-Party Conflict Management

Beardsley, Kyle; Lo, Nigel - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 30 (2013) 1, pp. 76-93

We explore how the domestic political institutions of states in the neighborhood of international disputants affect the incentives for third-party conflict management. Existing scholarship has argued that as the number of democracies in the international system increases, disputants are more...

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The interdependence of conflict management attempts

Diehl, Paul F.; Regan, Patrick - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 32 (2015) 1, pp. 99-107

Standard conflict management studies treat individual conflict management attempts, whether the same or different techniques, as independent of one another across time and space. This article considers the implications and lays out research agenda for several configurations that relax that...

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Escalation in international conflict management: A foreign policy perspective

Melin, Molly M. - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 32 (2015) 1, pp. 28-49

Efforts to resolve interstate disputes are often characterized by repeated engagement and evolving strategies. What explains a stateâ€™s decision to continue conflict resolution efforts but escalate their management strategy? Drawing from foreign policy literature, I argue that third...

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The UN at the peacemakingâ€“peacebuilding nexus

Beardsley, Kyle - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 30 (2013) 4, pp. 369-386

The UN Security Council (UNSC) confronts at least three challenges in translating its actions during armed conflict into more durable peace after conflict. First, heavy-handed interventions such as military deployments and sanctions can impede the ability of the disputants to identify and reach...

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International Mediation, Selection Effects, and the Question of Bias*

Beber, Bernd - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 29 (2012) 4, pp. 397-424

International mediation of violent conflicts is commonplace in todayâ€™s world, and so is academic research on its … features and effectiveness. But research that speaks to both the initiation and implementation of mediation remains relatively … counterintuitive selection effect: potential mediators that are likely to resolve a dispute are unlikely to select into mediation. The …

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Will we see helping hands? Predicting civil war mediation and likely success

Clayton, Govinda; Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 31 (2014) 3, pp. 265-284

We examine whether features highlighted as important for mediation in existing research allow us to predict when we … will see mediation and likely success out-of-sample. We assess to what extent information about the characteristics of the … mediation as well as when peaceful solutions are more likely to follow from mediation. We justify that the information used to …

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