Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases.(book)(Book review)

Publication: International Journal on World Peace

Publication Date: 01-SEP-05

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TAMING INTRACTABLE CONFLICTS: MEDIATION IN THE HARDEST CASES

Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2004

Paperback, 224 pages, $14.95

The authors of a new work in the field of international conflict management take on a formidable topic: intractable conflicts in national and international relations. While most people give up on conflicts that seemingly have no resolutions, these academic-practitioners do not. In Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases, Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall take the opposite view: "We do not accept the notion that violent conflicts are best left to burn themselves out, and we believe that most intractable conflicts end only with considerable outside help" (187). Thus, the goal of this work is to build their case that intractable conflicts...

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