Pamela Aall

Biographic Data

ID1472265
NAMEPamela Aall
GIVEN NAMESPamela
FAMILY NAMEAall
SIGNATUREAALL P
AFFILIATIONSUnited States Institute of Peace
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements That Changed the World

    Open AccessPamela AallARTICLENegotiation Journal2025

    What makes a good diplomat? Is it the person, or is it the way that person projects power or, alternatively, instills trust? Is it a matter of seizing an opportunity or an ability to create that opportunity? Or is it someone who is simply very good at communication? Sir Henry Wotton famously quipped around 1604 that an envoy “...is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.” This statement, made perhaps as an aside and reported…

  • A New Concert? Diplomacy for a Chaotic World

    Pamela Aall, Chester A Crocker et al.ARTICLESurvival2020

    A new ‘concert’ diplomacy is needed to foster informal, minilateral constellations of relevant actors operating alongside formal institutions of global governance

  • Byways to peacebuilding

    Pamela AallARTICLEPeacebuilding2016

    This brief paper looks at some key influences that led me to the conflict resolution field and deepened my understanding of why people fight and why they make peace

  • The Shifting Sands of Peacemaking: Challenges of Multiparty Mediation

    Chester A Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson et al.ARTICLEInternational Negotiation2015Cited by: 6References: 10

    Multiparty mediation, which occurs when two or more third parties cooperate or compete in helping antagonists negotiate a conflict settlement, carries both risks and rewards as a conflict management strategy. Cooperating multiple third parties can increase the chances of crafting an agreement, band together to create greater pressure on the conflict parties to reach agreement, and supply outside resources to help implement the negotiated agreemen…

  • A Global Security Vacuum Half-filled: Regional Organizations, Hybrid Groups and Security Management

    Chester A Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson et al.ARTICLEInternational Peacekeeping2014Cited by: 1

    At a time when the United Nations and key powerful states are pulling back from robust engagement in conflict management, regional organizations and ad hoc groupings of diverse organizations – collective conflict management initiatives – are stepping into the vacuum. In order to understand these two approaches – and why and when they may be operating together – this article compares them as they affect three significant questions and challenges i…

  • Collective conflict management: A New Formula for Global Peace and Security Cooperation

    Open AccessChester A Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson et al.ARTICLEInternational Affairs2011Cited by: 3

    This article surveys current security challenges and identifies obstacles to effective global and regional responses and cooperation in an era when security has become increasingly divisible. The new situation is partly explained by the complexity and variety of security challenges, both traditional and new, and by the linkages between them. It argues that a new pattern of improvised, ad hoc and often case-specific security mechanisms has develop…

  • Negotiating Toward Peacemaking: Experience of the U.S. Institute of Peace

    Pamela Aall, Michael LeksonARTICLEInternational Negotiation2010

    This article outlines the approach of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) to training in negotiation and associated skills. USIP has provided such training for over a decade to a wide array of international practitioners, both those who are in some way directly engaged in, or at least affected by, a conflict, and international third parties from outside the conflict zone. USIP concentrates in its negotiation training on building an unders…

  • Academics, Practitioners, and Diplomacy: An ISP Symposium on the Theory and Practice of Diplomacy

    Paul Sharp, John Hemery et al.ARTICLEInternational Studies Perspectives2002Cited by: 2

    Academics, Practitioners, and Diplomacy: An ISP Symposium on the Theory and Practice of Diplomacy Get access Paul Sharp, Paul Sharp University of Minnesota–Duluth, Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Hemery, John Hemery Centre for Political and Diplomatic Studies, Oxford, Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Pamela Aall, Pamela Aall U.S. Institute of Peace, Search for o…

  • Guessing the rules: Conflict resolution in the post-cold war era

    Pamela AallARTICLEPeace and Conflict Journal of…2002

    When the Soviet Union shattered into a dozen pieces, many students and practitioners of foreign policy and conflict resolution also lost their bearings. The bipolar international system which had provided an organizing framework for foreign policies and scholarly work was gone, replaced by a new world. To the surprise of many, the decade following the Cold War did not develop into a warm peace. It was tumultuous, bloody, riven by horrifying confl…

  • A Crowded Stage: Liabilities and Benefits of Multiparty Mediation

    Chester A Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson et al.ARTICLEInternational Studies Perspectives2001Cited by: 3

    In todays' environment, the international response to conflict often entails multiple mediators as well as other third-party actors such as peacekeeping forces, development agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and lone operators. Such a profusion of actors has often made peacemaking efforts messy, difficult, and at times chaotic. The vicious nature of internal conflicts, however, and the high costs for the international community of fa…

  • NGOs, conflict management and peacekeeping

    Pamela AallARTICLEInternational Peacekeeping2000Cited by: 1References: 7

    (2000). NGOs, conflict management and peacekeeping. International Peacekeeping: Vol. 7, Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution, pp. 121-141