International Peacemaking in Venezuela’s Intractable Conflict

International Mediation Bias and Peacemaking: Taking Sides in Civil Wars

It is a truism in mainstream academic debates and practical trainings that mediators’ impartiality is an essential element of successful peace mediation. In order to gain trust from negotiating parties who are carrying out adversarial bargaining, the traditional assumption suggests that mediating bodies must remain “impartial and unbiased, ideally unconnected” to any of the direct participants....

Intractable Conflict as a Dynamical System

We show how mathematical methods from complex systems can be used both as metaphors and mathematical equations to understand the nature of conflicts between individuals, groups, and nations and present novel methods for their resolution. The metaphorical approaches have been successful used as training materials for practical applications in conflict management. The mathematical model allows us...

Dynamical-Systems Theory and Intractable Conflict:

Coleman, P. T., Vallacher, R., Nowak, A., & Bui-Wrzosinska, L. (2007). Intractable conflict as an attractor: Presenting a dynamical model of conflict, escalation, and intractability. American Behavioral Scientist, 50(11), 1454-1475. Coleman, P. T. (2006) Conflict, complexity, and change: A meta-framework for addressing protracted, intractable conflicts III. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace ...

Group-based Hatred in Intractable Conflict in Israel

Patterns of Conflict Resolution: Identifying Sequences and Comparing Processes of Peacemaking

PATTERNS OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION: IDENTIFYING SEQUENCES AND COMPARING PROCESSES OF PEACEMAKING This article introduces and justifies the research method followed in the case studies discussed below, which form part of a collective research project. In contrast to dominant approaches to the study of conflict and settlement which narrow the parameters of study to particular levels of violent confl...