GS232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Syrian Civil War
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Mediation is a form of third party intervention in a conflict: aim is not to use force, to get settlement on both sides, get a settlement consistent with mediators interests. Widely used for domestic conflicts, commercial conflicts, personal conflicts, etc. Our interest: international conflict mediation: special subset of mediation: deals with international conflicts. Domestic (within-state) conflicts where there is outside interference. Mediation: no advance commitment to agreement with mediation, parties to conflict can walk away from negotiation/mediation any time. Arbitration: uses binging judicial process, more court-like process, both parties accept before starting arbitration to accept ruling. Conflict parties have absolutist goals: conflict parties demand death of opponent or/and conflict parties willing to see their own demise to achieve their goals, conflict parties dehumanize the other. Mediation often has to create negotiation positions. Mediation is a foreign policy tool to achieve political goals of mediators. National self-interest of mediator-related to national interest: goals:
