Finding a Peace that Lasts
Mediator Leverage and the Durable Resolution of Civil Wars
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6284722 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lindsay Reid (0000-0003-2053-0319, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1401-1431 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022002715611231 |
| OpenAlex | W2471209853 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 46 |
How does leverage vary across different mediators? What influence does this variation have on mediation outcomes? Extant literature has equated mediation leverage with material power. Leverage, however, is context dependent and comprised of two dimensions: capability and credibility. Capability leverage is a function of economic resources and power, while credibility leverage derives influence from historical and cultural ties that bolster a mediator’s contextual knowledge of a conflict. I hypothesize that mediators with capability leverage are more likely to achieve short-term success, whereas mediators with credibility leverage generate more durable settlements. I quantitatively test the hypotheses using civil war mediation attempts from 1989 to 2006. I find that capability leverage does indeed contribute to the achievement of short-term success; credibility leverage, however, generates a more durable peace. The results demonstrate the importance of understanding mediation leverage as a context-dependent concept and highlight the potential long-term benefits of softer forms of mediation
Business · Credibility · Leverage (statistics · Mediation · Political science · Computer Science · Conflict Management and Negotiation · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Psychology
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Blueprints and Blind Spots
The Way You Do It Like You Do
When Do Mediators Say “No”? The Case of American Resistance to Mediating the Gulf Diplomatic Crisis
Structural bias, polarized mediation and conflict resolution failure
Patron, Broker, Ally
Women at the Table
Sticks and carrots for peace
The Power to Blame as a Source of Leverage
Intrastate Armed Conflict Termination and Foreign Direct Investment
The Importance of Being Earnest (in Mediation)
Multiparty Mediation Networks and Civil War Mediation Outcomes
When to Get Out of the Trench? Using Smart Pressure to Resolve Civil Wars
Mediation and the Dynamics of Civilian Victimisation in Intrastate Conflicts in Africa
In Search of the Golden Formula
Third-party knowledge and success in civil war mediation
The ‘Warriors Break’
Mediation and Mongolia’s foreign policy
Regional approaches to conflict prevention
Helping without hurting
Complementary mediation
The enemy of my friend becomes my friend
Forecasting Peace Agreement Content
Crises and Negotiations in Mutual Interventions
The Curse of Coercive Mediation
Civil War Mediation and the Conflict Environment
Knowledge production on mediation
A latent variable approach to measuring and explaining peace agreement strength
No way out? Opportunities for mediation efforts in the Donbas region
Muddying the Waters
African Solutions to African Challenges
Mission (im)possible? UN military peacekeeping operations in civil wars
Disaggregated mediation
Civil war mediation in the shadow of IGOs
Peace agreements and women's political rights following civil war
The Mediation Dilemma
Does Peacekeeping Work?
The Geography of Ethnic Violence
Mediation in International Relations
Event History Modeling
The timing of peace initiatives
Mediation and Peacekeeping in a Random Walk Model of Civil and Interstate War
The Influence of Directive Strategies on Settlement Duration
Mediation with Muscles or Minds? Exploring Power Mediators and Pure Mediators in Civil Wars
Bias and the Effectiveness of Third-Party Conflict Management Mechanisms
Crisis managers but not conflict resolvers
Incentives for Talking
Intervention Without Leverage
Empirical Studies in International Mediation
International Mediation
Bias and balance in civil war mediation
The Art of the Possible
Signs of Trouble
Power, Impartiality and Timing
Mediation Style and Crisis Outcomes
Why Do They Do It Like This
Understanding Success and Failure of International Mediation
How Civil Wars End
Mediating International Crises
Information, Bias, and Mediation Success
Overcoming Obstacles to Peace
The Impact of State Relationships on If, When, and How Conflict Management Occurs1
When Do They Say Yes? An Analysis of the Willingness to Offer and Accept Mediation in Civil Wars
A Supply Side Theory of Mediation1
Bargaining Failures and Civil War
Which Side Are You On? Bias, Credibility, and Mediation
Agreement without Peace? International Mediation and Time Inconsistency Problems
International Institutions and Compliance with Agreements
Does Peacekeeping Keep Peace? International Intervention and the Duration of Peace After Civil War
Soft Power
Ethnic Politics and Armed Conflict
Soft Power and American Foreign Policy
Introducing the Civil Wars Mediation (CWM) dataset
Bargaining, Bias and Peace Brokers
How and when armed conflicts end
Some Conceptual Issues and Empirical Trends in the Study of Successful Mediation in International Relations
Talking peace
When Can Mediators Build Trust
Should Peacemakers Take Sides? Major Power Mediation, Coercion, and Bias
| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |