2014 | Author: Thania Paffenholz (HD Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue)
Broadening participation in peace processes - Dilemmas and Options for Mediators
This paper seeks to provide mediators and mediation teams with a better understanding of, and options for, broadening participation in peace negotiations without reducing the effectiveness of the mediation process. The question of participation is analyzed from a process design perspective: ‘Who should participate in which phase, role and form in order to achieve the desired objective?’ It also looks at challenges and how to manage them, and presents nine participations models based on existing practices.