Determining The Opportunity Of Conflict Resolution

What is International Mediation?

During conflict, the parties are not able to reach to an agreement. So, a third party steps in to resolve the conflict and help the conflicting parties reach to a mutual agreement. The third party can also be called as mediator.

International Mediator is known as a voluntary form of medium for conflict management, which is active in international relations. In other terms, International Mediation can also be defined as a comprehensive compromise. They also play an important role for ending the dispute or propose alternatives to resolve the same.

Who are International Mediators?

Diplomat of states
Representatives of global and regional organizations
Global NGOs
Secular organizations

What is Multi-party mediation?

It is a scenario where more than one third parties come into picture to resolve a conflict. The examples are national government bodies, NGOs etc.

Advantage: This type of arrangement allows each party to participate based on their abilities and peculiarities which they use during various phases of conflict resolution.

Fundamentals in multi-party mediation:

The most crucial part in this agreement is to acquire full cooperation from various mediators and also the synchronization of their actions to attain peace among the conflicting parties
All the mediators should share a common objective
The mediators should be well aware of the difference in view points of the conflicting sides

Stages of Conflict Resolution:

Effective Communication: The basic step of a mediator would be to effortlessly communicate points from both the parties. This is necessary at the initial stage as the conflicting parties sometimes do not have a complete information about their opponent’s views
Direct Involvement: Here, the mediator not only communicates, but offers solutions to resolve conflict
Mediation muscle: Here, the mediator not only offers solutions, but also offers inducement which might persuade the parties to come to a solution