Studies on international mediation have traditionally focused on the effectiveness of international efforts to settle or resolve militarized conflicts. In this article, we start from a different perspective andexamine the identity of mediators and the factors determining the choice of mediators....

Mediation is one of the few mechanisms the international community can deploy that will affect civil wars. This article introduces the dataset on mediation in civil wars - termed the Civil War Mediation (CWM) dataset. This is the first dataset to focus solely on civil war mediation. These data...

The literature on mediation focuses largely on experimental laboratory studies or descriptions of single cases. This article goes beyond such approaches by analyzing systematically how dispute characteristics affect mediation outcomes. A theoretical framework for studying mediation behavior is...

The authors address a question that is central to many ADR studies; namely, are some peace agreements really better designed than others, and, if so, will these agreements last longer? It is argued that peace ultimately rests on the parties choosing to cooperate with one another to uphold the...