Rethinking Peace Mediation

Peace mediation has become an increasingly professionalised field. The number of support actors and the scope of technical assistance has grown exponentially over the last decades. International and regional organisations, along with non-governmental actors, have significantly expanded their capacities to assist conflict parties in the resolution and prevention of armed conflict. This drive towards professionalisation has been accompanied by a new emphasis on normative and principled approaches to mediation design and practice. Among other issues this includes broad notions of inclusion and participation, human rights and gender sensitivity and on the idea of systematised principles of process design. These trends profoundly challenge the nature of peace mediation and the way in which it is practiced.

In November 2018 a workshop was convened in New York to explore these trends and what they mean for mediation in the twenty first century.

The outcome of this event was published as an edited collection with Bristol University Press in early 2021 and can be purchased here.

The call for papers for the event can be read here.

The workshop programme can be read here.

This event was kindly supported by

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