Translating Mediation Guidance into Practice

Commentary on the UN Guidance for Effective Mediation by the Mediation Support Network. Foreword by Jimmy Carter

Author(s): Miguel Alvarez, Sabina Avasiloae, Roxana Cristescu, Paul Dziatkowiec, Sara Hellmueller, Lars Kirchhoff, Anne Isabel Kraus, Simon Mason, Martha Mutisi, Nathan Stock, Barbara Unger, Zahbia Yousuf
Editor(s): Simon Mason
Series: MSN Discussion Points
Issue: 2
Publisher(s): Mediation Support Network; Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2013

The Mediation Support Network (MSN) is a network of primarily non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that support mediation in peace negotiations. During their 2012 meetings, MSN members discussed and reflected on the 'UN Guidance for Effective Mediation'. The aim of this document is to formalize and catalogue these reflections into a consolidated commentary for the wider mediation and peace policy community, focusing on how to translate the UN Guidance into practice. Rather than being a comprehensive commentary, this document therefore focuses on certain issues and cases that seem pertinent from the MSN perspective...

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Series: MSN Discussion Points