Words Over War: Mediation and Arbitration to Prevent Deadly Conflict

Book Overview

The international community can creatively and aggressively address deadly conflict through mediation, arbitration, and the development of international institutions to promote reconciliation. The editors of this book designed a systematic framework with which contributors compare third party intervention in twelve conflicts of the postDCold War period. They examine the role of international organizations_the United Nations, international development banks, and international law institutions_and they analyze the tools and forms of leverage in successful and unsuccessful mediations. Based on the case studies, the editors identify the most effective institutions, make recommendations for improving interventions, and elucidate several important insights into the mediation process and the role of the international community in dispute resolution.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847698939
• ISBN13: 9780847698936
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 499 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

"War over Words" is a "wow."

This book admirably manages to be at once dispassionate yet purposeful, scholarly yet readable, and so lucidly written that it's invaluable for both the most well-informed reader of world affairs as well as the less knowledgeable reader looking for a thoroughly comprehensible overview of the world's most intractable areas of conflict. A serious contribution towards the resolution of global hostilities.