Timing Mediation Initiatives

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Timing Mediation Initiatives is written by I. William Zartman and published by United States Inst of Peace Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1601270585 (ISBN 10) and 9781601270580 (ISBN 13).

If it is to succeed, a mediation initiative cannot be launched at just any time; the conflict must be ripe for the initiation of negotiation. Parties resolve their conflict only when they have to do so-- when each party's efforts to achieve a unilaterally satisfactory result are blocked and the parties feel trapped in an uncomfortable and costly predicament. This toolkit lays out the steps mediators can take to recognize ripeness themselves, to foster the parties' perception of ripeness, and to ripen the conflict.