Abstract
By 1995 the international efforts had brought an end to the wars in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia. Nonetheless the mediation efforts in former Yugoslavia cannot be considered an unqualified success. The attempts in 1991 to bring about a comprehensive settlement of the conflicts were a total failure. The seven months it took to bring about the ceasefire in Croatia, and the three and a half years needed to produce a settlement in Bosnia are hardly examples of effective mediation. While the tortuous process of mediation was taking place, close to 200 000 people were killed and approximately two million were displaced from their homes and turned into refugees.
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Notes
Fred lkle’s discussion of ‘negotiating for side effects’ is or relevance here. See his How Nations Negotiate (New York: Praeger, 1964), pp. 42–58.
For other perspectives on this issue see Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall (eds), Herding Cats: Multiparty Mediation in a Complex World (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 1999), pp. 668–77; Jeffrey Z. Rubin, ‘Conclusion: International Mediation in Context’, in Jacob Bercovitch and Jeffrey Z. Rubin, Mediation in International Relations (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992), pp. 249–72.
Sydney D. Bailey, How Wars End: The United Nations and the Termination of Armed Conflict, 1946–1964, vol. i(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), p. 168.
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Touval, S. (2002). Priorities. In: Mediation in the Yugoslav Wars. Advances in Political Science: An International Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288669_9
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