1st Edition

International Mediation in Civil Wars Bargaining with Bullets

By Timothy D Sisk Copyright 2009
266 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

This book evaluates the role of international mediators in bringing civil wars to an end and makes the case for ‘powerful peacemaking’ – using incentives and sanctions – to leverage parties into peace. As internal violence within countries is a hugely significant threat to international peace in the post-Cold War era, the question of how these wars end has become an urgent research and... Read more

Introduction: Pursuing War, Negotiating Peace  1 Untold Sorrow: Civil Wars and War Termination, 1990-2007  2 Peace Processes as a Bargaining Problem  3 Peace without Victory: Escaping Untold Sorrow  4 South Africa: Negotiating Democracy after Apartheid  5 Liberia: Leveraging for Peace by Pursuing Justice  6 Burundi: Empowering the Fragile Center  7 Sri Lanka: Mediating without Power  8 Kashmir: The Power of Imagination  9 Confronting Bargaining with Bullets: Powerful Peacemaking

Biography

Timothy D. Sisk is Associate Dean and Associate Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development and International Peace, a research and policy development institute at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver.