requires a demonstration of the third party's resolve. This cannot be achieved immediately upon intervention, and, given the … perpetrator's strategic response to third-party involvement, the authors expect intervention to increase hostilities in the short …

, previous work implicitly assumes that potential interveners base their intervention decisions solely on their links to the …-intervener dyad are causally associated with intervention. To test these arguments, the author accounts for the contagious properties …

We assessed whether intergroup contact at a nation-building intervention in Malaysia improved participantsâ …-group setting. We found evidence of a strong relationship between post-intervention contact and post-intervention outgroup … evaluations in all groups and evidence of indirect effects of post-intervention contact on outgroup evaluations by symbolic threat …

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 …

wars; conversely, the policy community often acts as if it holds the opposite expectation for the outcome of intervention …. The authors argue that the divergence can be found in how models of intervention are specified in the literature. They … 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 …