Beyond Intractability: A Free Knowledge Base on More Constructive Approaches to Destructive Conflict

Codes of Conduct for Intervenors

	Frank Dukes suggests that mediators in environmental negotiations cannot be fully neutral.
	How neutral is neutral? Every mediator need his or her own answer to this question, says Wallace Warfield.
	Wallace Warfield tells a story that illustrates how sometimes police force, not mediation is more appropriate.
	What happens if you are asked to do something that violates your values? You have to be true to your own values, and disengage from (or don't get in) the process, says Wallace Warfield.

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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. -- Albert Camus

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