Mediation in peacekeeping missions and the role of dispute severity, time pressure, and the peacekeeper's rank in that … peacekeeping literature are discussed, and implications are developed for an agenda of research on mediation processes. …

Third-party conflict management, particularly legal dispute resolution (arbitration and adjudication) and mediation … providing political cover. In both regards, and especially pertaining to commitment problems, mediation has substantial … propensity for concessions by both challengers and targets, even major asymmetric concessions. Mediation, on the other hand, only …

results suggest that diplomacy is critical for understanding the duration of civil conflicts. They find that mediation has a …

This study focuses on mediation as a means for mitigating or at least minimizing the potentially turbulent and violent … consequences of international crises. Two main research questions are explored: (1) Does mediation in general affect the dynamics … and outcomes of crisis negotiations? and (2) Does the impact of mediation vary in accordance with mediator style? Data are …

This study focuses on the varying effectiveness of three mediation styles—facilitation, formulation, and …-crisis tension reduction, and contribution to crisis abatement. The authors analyze new data on the mediation process from the …

theoretical and qualitative literatures on mediation. Cross-correlation analysis is used to examine the time delay in the effects … of mediation on the level of violence over time. Results show that these effects vary somewhat, depending on the conflict …, and differ substantially, depending on who is conducting the mediation. Whether conflict reduction is most effectively …

China's elaborate system of local mediation committees has piqued researchers' curiosity for decades and sparked an … argument in these pages. Crucial questions—concerning how much mediation actually takes place, what kinds of disputes are … mediated, who seeks mediation, and how successful it is—have gone unanswered for lack of data. This article addresses these …

This study examines the effect of biased versus neutral mediation on the content of peace agreements. The author argues … use their particular access and leverage to make their side agree to costly concessions. Biased mediation processes are … therefore more likely than neutral mediation processes to lead to elaborated institutional arrangements that are generally …

dealt with by the international community. In this article, I examine the occurrence of mediation in low-intensity conflicts …. Drawing on insights from the war termination literature, I develop a theoretical argument that links mediation in low … when mediation happens, how events unfold on the battlefield also influences the occurrence of mediation. I test this …