Nathalie Al-Zyoud's Blog – March 2014 Archive (2)

Statistics about International Mediation

The following are statistics about the use of mediation, its impact on crisis management and long-term tension reduction, and the effectiveness of various mediation styles and organizations. This is by no means a literature review but just a few numbers I found interesting.

Please feel free to respond by sharing the statistics you’ve found in your research, of course including appropriate references so sources can be verified...…

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Added by Nathalie Al-Zyoud on March 21, 2014 at 8:36pm — No Comments

From Violence to a Willingness to Negotiate: strategies for getting belligerents to the table

External forces cannot by themselves compel a State to end a civil strife: at some point, domestic actors need to be able to work together to find a way out of the conflict.

There are many reasons why people choose to escalate a conflict, but most often it is a tactic to achieve a certain objective. For…

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Added by Nathalie Al-Zyoud on March 4, 2014 at 9:51am — No Comments