Mind the Gap: How Mediation Support Can Better Respond to the Needs of Local Societies

Author(s): Julius Goldmann, Anne Isabel Kraus, Simon Mason, Valerie Sticher, Barbara Unger
Editor(s): Simon Mason
Series: MSN Discussion Points
Issue: 4
Publisher(s): Mediation Support Network; Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2013

This publication explores how international mediators and mediation support actors can assist local and national efforts towards peace without undermining local ownership or ignoring local needs. It focuses on three specific gaps: 1) a lack of case-specific understanding and action, 2) a lack of information sharing and coordination, and 3) insufficient local and international collaboration. It presents some experiences of member organizations of the Mediation Support Network and makes some suggestions as to how the gaps could be bridged.

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Series: MSN Discussion Points