Mediation is a popular process to prevent conflicts over common resources, but there is little clean insight into its …

mediation and its outcome, this study tests hypotheses rooted in both the international relations and the cross … international system level, the study finds that cultural difference between adversaries affects whether or not mediation occurs …-party mediation during an international crisis, but that these facets have no effect on tension reduction. …

dealt with by the international community. In this article, I examine the occurrence of mediation in low-intensity conflicts …. Drawing on insights from the war termination literature, I develop a theoretical argument that links mediation in low … when mediation happens, how events unfold on the battlefield also influences the occurrence of mediation. I test this …

Mediation in peacekeeping missions and the role of dispute severity, time pressure, and the peacekeeper's rank in that … peacekeeping literature are discussed, and implications are developed for an agenda of research on mediation processes. …

Third-party conflict management, particularly legal dispute resolution (arbitration and adjudication) and mediation … providing political cover. In both regards, and especially pertaining to commitment problems, mediation has substantial … propensity for concessions by both challengers and targets, even major asymmetric concessions. Mediation, on the other hand, only …

results suggest that diplomacy is critical for understanding the duration of civil conflicts. They find that mediation has a …

This study focuses on mediation as a means for mitigating or at least minimizing the potentially turbulent and violent … consequences of international crises. Two main research questions are explored: (1) Does mediation in general affect the dynamics … and outcomes of crisis negotiations? and (2) Does the impact of mediation vary in accordance with mediator style? Data are …

This study focuses on the varying effectiveness of three mediation styles—facilitation, formulation, and …-crisis tension reduction, and contribution to crisis abatement. The authors analyze new data on the mediation process from the …