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Oxford Negotiating Peace A Guide to the Practice Politics and Law of International Mediation 2018 Edition by Sven M.G. Koopmans
This book is the first and only practical guide to negotiating peace. In this ground-breaking book Sven Koopmans, who is both a peace negotiator and a scholar, discusses the practice, politics, and law of international mediation. With both depth and a light touch he explores successful as well as failed attempts to settle the wars of the world, building on decades of historical, political, and legal scholarship. _x000D__x000D_Who can mediate between warring parties? How to build confidence between enemies? Who should take part in negotiations? How can a single diplomat manage the major powers? What issues to discuss first, what last? When to set a deadline? How to maintain confidentiality? How to draft an agreement, and what should be in it? How to ensure implementation? The book discusses the practical difficulties and dilemmas of negotiating agreements, as well as existing solutions and possible future approaches._x000D_It uses examples from around the world, with an emphasis on the conflicts of the last twenty-five years, but also of the previous two-and-a-half-thousand. Rather than looking only at either legal, political or organizational issues, Negotiating Peace discusses these interrelated dimensions in the_x000D_way they are confronted in practice: as an integral whole. With one leading question: what can be done?_x000D_ Table of Contents :- _x000D_
1: Negotiating Peace_x000D_
2: Negotiation, Mediation, and Other Means_x000D_
3: Mediators_x000D_
4: Parties_x000D_
5: Strategy and Planning_x000D_
6: Negotiating an Agreement_x000D_
7: Concluding an Agreement_x000D_
8: Conclusion_x000D_