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This edition of the MSN Discussion Points aims to critically discuss the United Nations Department of Political Affairs (UN DPA) Guidance on Gender and Inclusive Mediation Strategies – hereafter referred to as the Guidance – which was launched officially at the MSN meeting 2017. The meeting was held from 27 to 31 March in New York and Washington DC under the theme: State of the Field of Mediation: Challenges for Mediation Support. ; ISSN:2413-2020

During 2011 the sudden and dramatic popular uprisings in parts of the Middle East and North Africa, which together constituted the Arab Spring, produced diverse patterns of conflict. The events of the Arab Spring were not, however, isolated in terms of contemporary conflict trends. Rather, developments across the region served to underline some of the long-term changes that have occurred in armed conflict over recent decades. This has involved important shifts in the scale, intensity and duration of armed conflict around the world, and in the principal actors involved in violence. Together these changes point to the emergence of a significantly different conflict environment than that which prevailed for much of the 20th century. Adapted from the source document.