International Conflict Mediation: New Approaches And Findings (routledge Studies In Security And Conflict Management)

This book examines how new empirical approaches to mediation can shed fresh light on the effectiveness of different patterns of conflict management, and offers guidelines on the process of international mediation. International conflict mediation has become one of, if not the most prominent and important conflict resolution methods of the early 21 st century. This book argues that traditional approaches to mediation have been inadequate, and that in order to really understand how the process of international mediation works, studies need to operate within an explicit theoretical framework, adopt systematic empirical approaches and use a diversity of methods to identify critical interactions, contexts and relationships. This volume captures recent important changes in the field of international conflict mediation, and includes essays by leading scholars on a variety of critical aspects of conflict management, using state of the art analytical tools and up to date data. This book will of great interest to scholars of peace and conflict studies, methods in social science, and of International Relations in general. New Approaches, Methods And Findings In The Study Of Mediation / Jacob Bercovitch And Scott Sigmond Gartner -- Is There Method In The Madness Of Mediation? Some Lessons For Mediators From Quantitative Studies Of Mediation / Jacob Bercovitch And Scott Sigmund Gartner -- Third-party Intermediaries And Negotiated Settlements, 1946-2000 / Derrick V. Frazier And William J. Dixon -- Credibility And Strategy In International Mediation / Zeev Maoz And Lesley G. Terris -- Mediator Types And The Effectiveness Of Information-provision Strategies In The Resolution On International Conflict / Burcu Savun -- Guaranteeing Peace: The Credibility Of Third-party Mediators In Civil Wars / Isak Svensson -- Choosing Sides: Un Resolutions And Non-neutrality / Michelle Benson And Nil S. Satana -- Softening Up: Making Conflicts More Amenable To Diplomacy / J. Michael Greig And Paul F. Diehl -- Power Play: Mediation In Symmetric And Asymmetric International Crises / David Quinn [and Others] -- Protracted Conflict And Crisis Mediation: A Contingency Approach / David Carment, Yiagadeesen Samy And Souleima El Achkar -- Practicing Democratic Community Norms: Third-party Conflict Management And Successful Settlements / Sara Mclaughlin Mitchell, Kelly M. Kadera And Mark J.c. Grescenzi -- Philippine And Taiwanese Legal Mediation / James A. Wall [and Others] -- Conflict And Mediation Event Observations (cameo): An Event Data Framework For A Post-cold War World / Deborah J. Gerner, Philip A. Schrodt And Ömür Yilmaz. Edited By Jacob Bercovitch And Scott Sigmund Gartner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Book Cover Title Copyright Contents Figures Tables Contributors Acknowledgments 1 New approaches, methods and findings in the study of mediation Part I Mediation strategy 2 Is there method in the madness of mediation?: Some lessons for mediators from quantitative studies of mediation 3 Third-party intermediaries and negotiated settlements, 1946–2000 Part II Mediator type 4 Credibility and strategy in international mediation 5 Mediator types and the effectiveness of informationprovision strategies in the resolution of international conflict 6 Guaranteeing peace: The credibility of third-party mediators in civil wars 7 Choosing sides: UN resolutions and non-neutrality Part III Dispute and crisis types 8 Softening up: Making conflicts more amenable to diplomacy 9 Power play: Mediation in symmetric and asymmetric international crises 10 Protracted conflict and crisis mediation: A contingency approach Part IV The conflict management environment 11 Practicing democratic community norms: Third-party conflict management and successful settlements 12 Philippine and Taiwanese legal mediation Part V Data 13 Conflict and Mediation Event Observations (CAMEO): An event data framework for a post-Cold War world Index The field of international conflict mediation is currently undergoing a revolution, which is fundamentally challenging and changing our understanding of conflict resolution. Largely driven by UN actions, international conflict mediation has become one of, if not the most prominent and important conflict resolution methods of the early 21st century. A number of quantitative data sources on conflict management have recently become available to scholars, facilitating an explosion of quantitative-based studies on international mediation. The proposed book exemplifies this blast, and is very much at the forefront of it. The topicality of mediation has attracted a wave of new scholars and approaches, bridging the divide between those who studied conflict management and those who analyzed conflict occurrence and conduct. This book aims to capture these important changes in the field of international conflict mediation, and includes essays by leading scholars on a variety of critical aspects of conflict management with state of the art analytical tools and up to date data