Introduction : pursuing war, negotiating peace -- Untold sorrow : civil wars and war termination, 1990-2007 -- Peace processes as a bargaining problem -- Peace through negotiation : escaping untold sorrow -- South Africa : negotiating democracy after apartheid -- Liberia : leveraging peace by pursuing justice -- Burundi : empowering the fragile center -- Sri Lanka : mediating without power -- Kashmir : the power of imagination -- Confronting bargaining with bullets : powerful peacemaking
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-244) and index