MSFS-526 International Mediation: Strategy and Methods

MSFS-526 International Mediation: Strategy and Methods

Spring only

Faculty:

Crocker, Chester

This seminar explores the role of mediation as an instrument of conflict management and a foreign policy technique. Students will consult both theoretical and case study materials, and become adept at analyzing the suitability of diverse mediatory approaches and actors to concrete conflict situations at diverse stages of the conflict life cycle. Adopting the mediator’s perspective, they will address the challenge of how to design and conduct mediation as a form of third party intervention in violent international conflict. The course will identify and explore strategies and techniques used to overcome obstacles to a mediated settlement in intractable conflicts. Simulation and mediation analysis exercises will be used to illustrate the perspectives of mediators and conflict parties, and to introduce elements of mediation strategy.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

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