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Analyzes the postconflict reconstruction gap in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan and shows how military engineering brigades accompanying peacekeeping contingents can restore vital infrastructure and social institutions.

This penetrating study of successful mediation in a half-dozen violent conflicts across the African continent focuses on a hitherto neglected dimension of mediation and the motivations of the parties in conflict—and of the mediators themselves—in initiating mediation.

Some conflicts seem destined never to end. What lessons—aside from the apparent futility of mediation—can such dismal situations offer? As the distinguished contributors to Grasping the Nettle make plain, this is not nearly a rhetorical question. Unyielding conflicts offer numerous insights—not only about the sources of intractability but also about such facets of mediation and conflict management as how to gain leverage, when to engage and disengage, how to balance competing goals, and who to enlist to play supporting roles.

Drawing on impressive scholarship and extensive firsthand knowledge of humanitarian relief efforts in North Korea, Hazel Smith provides an eye-opening account of the famine that devastated the country in the 1990s and of the international rescue program that Pyongyang requested and received.

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A hands-on guide for mediators and as a powerful argument for students of conflict management that intractable conflicts are not beyond the reach of mediation.

Spotlights the political, military, and economic dynamics that drive the unresolved conflicts in South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria, and Nagorno-Karabakh and evaluates options for resolving the status of the de facto states.