Mediation is one of the few mechanisms the international community can deploy that will affect civil wars. This article … introduces the dataset on mediation in civil wars - termed the Civil War Mediation (CWM) dataset. This is the first dataset to … focus solely on civil war mediation. These data contribute to the present state of quantitative research on mediation in …

How do factors that influence mediation offers affect belligerent behavior? The circumstances that attract potential … mediators are not the same as those that make mediation desirable to belligerents. Third parties offer mediation when the … conflict is intense, generation of an agreement is likely and they have ties to the conflict. However, mediation is less …

Studies on international mediation have traditionally focused on the effectiveness of international efforts to settle … number of mediation mandates an international actor receives. The hypotheses we derive are subsequently tested in a … multivariate event count model using an original dataset on international mediation from 1950 to 1990. The results obtained from …