Oslo forum 06 - Annual Mediators' Retreat
Mediating today's conflicts for tomorrow's peace: Improving practice by confronting reality
26-28 June 2006, Oslo
The fourth annual event of its kind, the Oslo forum 2006 focused on the delicate balance mediators need to strike between the needs of a particular mediation process and growing demands at the international level such as human rights standards, the war on terror and restrictions on whom to engage with.
The Oslo forum 2006 was exceptional in bringing together senior conflict mediators and other key peace process actors, who seek to resolve conflict through dialogue, in total some 65 participants. Participants benefited from active discussions with selected guest speakers, including Gerry Adams, President of Sinn Féin, Luis Moreno Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and Secretary General of the Council of the European Union.
Conceits and Callings: Conflict Mediation Comes of Age
By David Petrasek
Religious Aspects of Conflict and its Resolution
By David A. Steele
How Important is Religion? The Case of the Sudan Peace Negotiations By Endre Stiansen
Faith & Fear: How Religion Complicates Conflict Resolution in Southeast Asia
By Michael Vatikiotis
From Guerilla War to Party Politics: The Transformation of Non-State Armed Groups in El Salvador and Nicaragua
By Astrid Nissen and Klaus Schlichte
Accommodating Diversity: Federalism, Autonomy and Other Options
By Katia Papagianni
Managing Constituencies and Political Opposition during a Peace Process
By Keith Fitzgerald
Civil Society and Peace Negotiations: Why, whether and how they could be involved
By Thania Pfaffenholz, Darren Kew and Anthony Wanis-St. John
Towards Some Ethical Guidelines for Good Practice in Third Party Mediation in Armed Conflict
By Hugo Slim
The Tradecraft Transmission Belt: Transferring knowledge of mediation from Practice to Theory, from Theory to Practice, and back again
By United States Institute for Peace (USIP)
The UN as Conflict Mediator: First Amongst Equals or the Last Resort?
By Thant Myint-U, International Peace Academy (IPA)
Women and Mediation: Not Afraid to do the Job
By Antonia Potter (The Guardian, 24 Jan 2006)
The Limits of the Liberal Peace
A mediator's view
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