Taming Intractable Conflicts : Mediation in the Hardest Cases

Foreword by Richard H. Solomon vii Preface xi 1. Introduction: Mediation and Intractable Conflicts 3(18) Part I: Understanding the Context 2. When Powerful States Mediate: Motives and Results 21(24) 3. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Fate of Forgotten Conflicts 45(28) 4. The Mediator's Environment 73(20) Part II: Crafting the Response 5. Building a Negotiating Strategy 93(26) 6. Hanging On, Hunkering Down, and Bailing Out 119(30) 7. Recipes for Securing the Settlement 149(16) 8. Making a Settlement Stick 165(20) 9. Conclusion: Learning to Mediate 185(4) Notes 189(16) Bibliography 205(20) Index 225(14) About the Authors 239