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Conflict Resolution is one of the fastest growing academic fields in the world today. Although it is a relatively young discipline, having emerged as a specialized field in the 1950s, it has rapidly grown into a self-contained, vibrant, interdisciplinary field. The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Resolution brings together all the conceptual, methodological, and substantive elements of Conflict Resolution into one volume of 35 specially commissioned chapters. The Handbook is designed to reflect where the field is today by drawing on the contributions of experts from different fields, presenting, in a systematic way, the most recent research and practice.
United Nations Mediation Experience: Practical Lessons for Conflict Resolution
United Nations Mediation Experience: Practical Lessons for Conflict Resolution
Since its inception in 1945, much of the effort of the United Nations has been aimed at the ‘maintenance of peace and security’ and the ‘pacific settlement of disputes’ – objectives set out in the UN Charter. This chapter will briefly discuss the UN's methodology in the area of conflict resolution within the context of the typology on different approaches to dispute resolutionoutlinedbyUry, Brett and Goldberg (1988). It will then focus more specifically on the UN's interest-based approach and suggest some of the lessons that can be learned for conflict resolution and peacemaking from UN experience.
The United Nations as a Dispute Settlement System
Indeed, the three main approaches to ...
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