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AbstractThe article tries to explain why the American mediation at Dayton resulted in agreement, whereas previous attempts to settle the Bosnian conflict had failed. After examining the evolution of American policies prior to 1995, the article discusses the US initiative of taking the lead in the negotiation, and the methods and tactics it employed. It argues that the military operations against the Serbs do not fit the description of the mediator as a manipulator inducing a mutually hurting stalemate. The military campaign having endowed Western policies with credibility, intimidated the Serbs, and redrawn the front-lines, might be called coercive mediation. It suggests that the description of the mediator as an intervenor who does not employ force needs to be revised.

Compares the value of remembrances of past injustices in war vs the necessity of selective forgetting to neutralize the past. The latter is seen as a strategy to achieve peace. The process of neutralizing the past requires a dynamic social & political discourse that must be sensitive to the specific contexts of past conflicts. 1 Photograph. S. Barrera

Examines the tension between the desire for peace as negotiated by men & the desire for equality among Israeli & Palestinian women, describing feminist & peace groups for both. The majority of women have subordinated the struggle for equality with men to the struggle for peace since the 1967 war. Arguing that, like war, peace is gendered, the links between both the Israeli-Arab conflict & women's subordination & militarism & sexism are discussed. It is concluded that if peace in the region is created by men alone, women will remain in a subordinate position; a joint effort to generate a degendered peace plan is advocated. M. Nichols-Wagner

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