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An Englishman writing about a country with such a long and separate history as Switzerland must always begin by showing his bona fides. Switzerland is a country that I have come to like and admire over the years, as much for its failings as for its obvious successes. My interest in the topic under discussion in this essay is personal as well as academic. During the period that I lived in Switzerland in the 1970s and 1980s I spent a modest proportion of my time engaged in what we would now call ‘second track’ (i.e. unofficial) third-party conflict resolution activities, mostly within the framework of the Second Cold War of the early 1980s.
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William B. Lloyd Jr, ‘Mediation in Swiss History’, Council for Correspondence Newsletter, No. 25 (April 1963), pp. 17–19.
Andrew Williams, ‘The Role of Third Parties in the Negotiation of International Agreements’, in: Chris Mitchell and Keith Webb (eds), New Approaches to International Mediation (New York, Westport, Conn., 1989), pp. 168–79.
Jacques Freymond, ‘La Suisse face aux conflits’, in: Max Petitpierre (ed.), Seize ans de neutralité active (Neuchâtel, 1980), pp. 143–53.
See Andrew Williams, ‘Mediation by Small States: Some Lessons from the CSCE’, Paradigms, 6/1 (Spring 1992), pp. 52–64.
René Lanzin, Editorial, Swiss Review: the Magazine for the Swiss Abroad, 6/1997, p. 3.
The most accessible account of this initiative can be found in Jane Corbin, Gaza First: the Secret Norway Channel to Peace Between Israel and the PLO (London, 1994).
Victor-Yves Ghébali, L’OSCE dans l’Europe post-communiste, 1990–1996: Vers une identité paneuropéenne de seécurité (Brussels, 1996), p. 612.
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Williams, A. (2000). Finding a New Role in International Conflict Resolution: Switzerland after the End of the Cold War. In: Butler, M., Pender, M., Charnley, J. (eds) The Making of Modern Switzerland, 1848–1998. New Perspectives in German Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598133_6
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