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

Insider-Partial Mediation
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	John Paul Lederach, Professor of International Peacebuilding, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, describes how to guarantee fairness if in a partial/insider role.
	John Paul Lederach, Professor of International Peacebuilding, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, explains the distinction between an insider/partial role and an outsider/neutral one using examples from Latin America.
	Peter Woodrow describes a Sri Lankan approach to mediation.
	William Ury explains how Nelson Mandela was a consummate third sider.
	Mari Fitzduff observes that neutrality is not possible in some cases.

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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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