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Conflicts in the international system, both among and within states, bring death, destruction, and human misery. Understanding how third parties use mediation to encourage settlements and establish a durable peace among belligerents is vital for managing these conflicts. Among many features, this book empirically examines the history of post-World War II mediation efforts to: Chart the historical changes in the types of conflicts that mediation addresses and the links between different mediation efforts across time.Explore the roles played by providers of mediation in the international system - namely, individuals, states, and organizations - in managing violent conflicts. Gauge the influence of self-interest and altruism as motivating forces that determine which conflicts are mediated and which are ignored.Evaluate what we know about the willingness of parties in conflict to accept mediation, when and why it is most effective, and discuss the future challenges facing mediators in the contemporary world. Drawing on a wide range of examples from the Oslo Accords and Good Friday Agreement to efforts to manage the civil wars in Burundi, Tajikistan, and Bosnia, this book is an indispensable guide to international mediation for students, practitioners, and general readers seeking to understand better how third parties can use mediation to deal with the globe's trouble spots.

Preliminary Material /Daniel Druckman and Paul F. Diehl -- Introduction: Peace Operations and Their Evaluation /William Maley -- Peace Operation Success: The Evaluation Framework /Paul F. Diehl and Daniel Druckman -- Evaluating Peace Operations: The Case of Cambodia /Jeni Whalan -- Local Politics and International Partnerships: The UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) /Alex J. Bellamy and Paul D. Williams -- Evaluating the Timor-Leste Peace Operation /John Braithwaite -- Recurring Dilemmas in a Recurring Conflict: Evaluating the UN Mission in Liberia (2003–2006) /Jeremy Farrall -- Revisiting the Framework: Extensions and Refinements /Daniel Druckman and Paul F. Diehl -- Using a Framework to Evaluate Peace Operations: The Role of the United Nations /Ramesh Thakur -- Index /Daniel Druckman and Paul F. Diehl.

Power laws, scaling, and fractals in the most lethal international and civil wars / Claudio Cioffi-Revilla and Manus I. Midlarsky -- A neural network analysis of militarized disputes, 1885-1992: temporal stability and causal complexity / Monica Lagazio and Bruce Russett -- Statesmen, popular wisdom, and empirical realities in the study of conflict and war: extending the 'Predictors of war in history and in the state of the world message' / Zeev Maoz -- The national interest versus individual political ambition: democracy, autocracy, and the reciprocation of force and violence in militarized interstate disputes / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and James Lee Ray -- Arms, alliances, and success in militarized disputes and wars, 1816-1992 / Volker Krausse -- Interventions as influence / Douglas Lemke and Patrick M. Regan -- The slow roasting of sacred cows: J. David Singer and the democratic peace / Errol A. Henderson -- Alliances, territorial disputes, and the probability of war: testing for interactions / Paul D. Senese and John A. Vasquez -- Toward a scientific theory of war / Daniel S. Geller

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