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Religion has often been thought of as playing a crucial role in generating conflicts, particularly internal ones. While it may often be a source of conflict, its role in the overall peace process has all too often been overlooked. In this paper we emphasize the importance of religion and religious actors in the process of mediation. We examine the general conditions that facilitate mediation in international relations and assess how much these hold true in the case of faith-based mediation. We find that aspects such as legitimacy and leverage have a major impact on the success or failure of mediation. We examine how these factors manifest themselves in the case of religious mediators, and we show that legitimacy and leverage are still crucial to successful mediation but have a very different meaning and content in the case of religious actors. We explore the consequences of these differences and explain how religious mediation may work best in tandem with the more traditional forms of mediation.

The authors seek to present an up-to-date, wide-ranging but concise assessment of the distinctive features of the mediation, conciliation and arbitration of industrial disputes in Australia, Great Britain and the USA. Although the penetration of third-party involvement varies, the study concludes that it is alive and well in all three countries, and expanding in Australia and the USA. (DÜI-Sen)