Topics in Policy Analysis: Mediating International and Internal Conflict
Francesc Vendrell
WWS 556a

Course Description:

On the basis of concrete international mediation experiences in Central America, Haiti, Cambodia, Burma, East Timor and Afghanistan, the course will discuss the various means of assisting in the settlement of disputes, the choice of mediators, the timing of mediation, and the difference between interstate and intrastate conflicts. The course will focus on the role played by the UN, analyzing the roles of the Secretary-General and of its Inter-Governmental organs, the role of "Friends", the different roles of mediation and fact-finding, the tension between principles and morality and between impartiality, objectivity and neutrality.

Syllabus

Course open to WWS graduate students only.