International Mediation in Civil Wars: Bargaining with Bullets

by Sisk; Timothy D.

• ISBN13: 9780415477055
• ISBN10: 0415477050
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134022366
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-17
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

This book provides a framework for the study of peace negotiations as a bargaining problem, and explores how international mediation can be more effectively designed and practised to enhance the prospects for ending civil wars.

Table of Contents

Pursuing war, negotiating peace
Untold sorrow : civil wars and war termination, 1990-2007	p. 1
Peace processes as a bargaining problem	p. 38
Peace through negotiation : escaping untold sorrow	p. 57
South Africa : negotiating democracy after apartheid	p. 83
Liberia : leveraging peace by pursuing justice	p. 113
Burundi : empowering the fragile center	p. 133
Sri Lanka : mediating without power	p. 147
Kashmir : the power of imagination	p. 167
Confronting bargaining with bullets : powerful peacemaking	p. 187
Notes	p. 208
References	p. 226
Index	p. 245
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