Intervention Coordination
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The Need for Coordination
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Mary Anderson talks about the need to more effectively coordinate the field's various peace practices.
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William Ury observes the problem in the Middle East is that the third side isn't operating. If those conflicts are to be transformed, all ten third side roles are needed.
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William Ury discusses the lessons he has learned so far implementing a third side approach in Venezuela.
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William Ury explains how outsiders can facilitate the development and coordination of many different third-sider roles. This he calls "meta mediation."
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Jayne Docherty suggests that intervention into complex, multi-dimensional conflicts requires inter-field collaboration.
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Chester Crocker talks about how Tracks I and II commonly misunderstand each other.
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Helen Chauncey describes the different kinds of people and organizations that work in conflict areas.
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Helen Chauncey observes much could be learned if different types of intervenors would learn from each other.
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Approaches to Coordination
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Mary Anderson describes the minimum requirements for successful conflict analysis, and also presents a matrix which helps to understand where in the peacebuilding system a particular intervention fits
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Chester Crocker outlines the elements of a successful intervention.
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Chester Crocker offers some insight as to how Track II actors might approach and work with Track I.
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Jock Baker talks about two ways to facilitate coordination among organizations working in the same conflict area.
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Sanda Kaufman, a scholar practitioner, says one obstacle to success is over-estimating what conflict resolvers, alone, can actually do.
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Ron Fisher reflects on the coordination of multiple intervention roles in complex intractable conflicts.
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Jannie Botes discusses the concept of "media mediation."
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Andrea Strimling, Commissioner, International ADR, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, describes the origins of the Alliance for International Conflict Resolution, an organization meant to be a network to facilitate communication and coordination amongst conflict resolution practitioners.
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Case Examples of Good Coordination
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Mari Fitzduff talks about coordinating the peacemaking efforts of various agencies in Northern Ireland.
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Chester Crocker discusses the success of the peace process in Mozambique.
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When Sarah Cobb intervenes in a conflict, she makes no attempt to be neutral. Instead, she is "multi-partial." One might ask what her interests are if she is so decidedly un-neutral. "My goal is the evolution of the narrative such that it is different than when the person came in."
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