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Author Sisk, Timothy D., 1960- author.

Title International mediation in civil wars : bargaining with bullets / Timothy D. Sisk
Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 253 pages)
Series Security and conflict management ; 4
Security and conflict management ; 4.
Contents 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
Subject Conflict management -- International cooperation -- Case studies
Peace-building -- International cooperation -- Case studies
LAW -- International.
Conflict management -- International cooperation
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203884959
0203884957