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The active search for a negotiated settlement to an international or intrastate conflict by an impartial third party. The search is ‘active’ in the sense that the work of the intermediary may go so far as to involve drawing up the agenda, calling and chairing negotiating sessions, proposing solutions, and employing threats and promises towards the rivals. It is now a matter of controversy whether the mediator need be impartial prior to the start of negotiations but there is still general agreement on its necessity once they have commenced. (To suggest that partisanship for one side in a conflict is a necessary or at least advantageous attribute of a mediator – as some do – is to commit a category error. A so-called ‘mediator’ who adopts a partisan attitude succeeds merely in rendering the negotiation an exercise in ordinary multilateral diplomacy.) Not to be confused with conciliation or good offices, this strict concept of mediation is the older – and still a very common – usage.
On a more recent and looser usage, any diplomatic activity by an intermediary, of whatever quality or degree, which is designed to promote a negotiated settlement to a conflict. See also venue. |
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