{"id":4074,"date":"2018-04-11T22:35:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T20:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2023-03-13T18:58:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T16:58:58","slug":"mediation-a-key-tool-for-pacification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/mediation-a-key-tool-for-pacification\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Mediation: a Key Tool for Pacification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can one understand, interpret and explain international mediation? Is it possible to distinguish different forms of international mediation in the violent political conflicts of the post-Cold War era? Milena Dieckhoff\u2019s thesis seeks to answer these basic questions by combining theoretical reflections and case-study analyses. More specifically, she has studied eight conflicts in which various mediators became involved and various mediations occurred \u2013 in Africa: Mozambique (FRELIMO\/RENAMO conflict), Sudan (South Sudan) and Kenya (2007 elections); in Asia: Sri Lanka (government\/LTTE) and Indonesia (government\/GAM); in the Middle East: Israel-Palestine; in Central America: Guatemala (government\/URNG); in Europe: Georgia (Russia\/Georgia).<br \/>\nMilena\u2019s thesis, which was supervised by Guillaume Devin and defended in 2016, received the Aguirre-Basualdo prize in law and political science awarded by the Chancellery of the Universities of Paris.\u00a0She went over her research with us: (choose subtitles in english).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Eu1lBMS2ba4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Long involved in teaching activities (Sciences Po, Lille 2 University, Paris-Sud University), Milena is currently a substitute professor at the University of Namur (Belgium) and associate researcher at Sciences Po\u2019s Center for International Studies and Research (CERI). Interview (in French).<\/p>\n<p><strong><b>To learn more:<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>View the thesis on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.sciencespo.fr\/ark:\/46513\/sc0001304521?mozQuirk=%D0%B6&amp;posInPage=1&amp;bookmark=a8314dc5-aebb-4b71-9fe2-2a9410d4e14b&amp;queryid=57d3eb54-f5d2-41e2-ae2c-28023e8a4a7e\">Mediation or mediations? Typology of a peacemaking activity in violent political conflicts in the post Cold War era<\/a>\u201d at Sciences Po\u2019s library<\/li>\n<li class=\"pv-accomplishments-block__list-container\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budrich-journals.de\/index.php\/eris\/article\/download\/16506\/14412\">\u00ab International Mediation : A Specific Diplomatic Tool For Emerging Countries ? \u00bb (pdf)<\/a>, <em>European Review of International Studies<\/em>, vol.1, n\u00b02, 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can one understand, interpret and explain international mediation? Is it possible to distinguish different forms of international mediation in the violent political conflicts of<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,31],"tags":[202,118,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/?lang=en"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/?lang=en"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/?lang=en"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/?lang=en"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?lang=en&post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions\/?lang=en"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14112,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions\/14112\/?lang=en"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4120\/?lang=en"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?lang=en&parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?lang=en&post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?lang=en&post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}