Current Trends in Mediation: MEND Key Findings
This policy brief presents key findings on the changing nature of peacemaking, based on the Mediation Event and Negotiators Database (MEND).
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Mediation in 2025: Navigating overlapping conflict systems
Drawing on the second release of the Mediation Event and Negotiators Database (MEND), this report analyses 1,344 mediation and mediation-related events across eight conflict affected contexts.
Mediation in 2024: First Insights from the MEND Database
This report shares key findings from the first release of the Mediation Events and Negotiators Database (MEND), which captures 230 mediation and 903 mediation-related events across six conflict-affected contexts...
The Dayton Peace Process: A Keyhole into Russian and Chinese Engagement with Liberal...
The paper examines the roles of Russia and China in a long-standing peace process in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the broader implications of this for liberal peacebuilding.
Russia and China in Liberal Peacebuilding: Perceptions and Engagement with the Dayton...
This report draws from a dataset charting the trends in Russian and Chinese perceptions of institutions responsible for the implementation of the Dayton Accords.
Still time to talk: Adaptation and innovation in peace mediation
Accord 30 examines the evolving mediation landscape and explores innovative approaches to engage armed groups, navigate the digital environment, and ensure diverse views are incorporated into peace processes.
Global Fragmentation and Collective Security Instruments: Weakening the Liberal...
Mateja Peter contends that the co-optation of UN peacekeeping has compromised human protection, which has been accelerated due to global fragmentation.
China and Russia in Sudan: Surveying Data on Economic and Military Engagement
Data on economic and military engagement by non-Western actors supports some existing understandings of their engagement with peacemaking in Sudan, while challenging others.
Third-Party Mediation in Sudan and South Sudan: Longer-Term Trends
This analysis of data on third-party mediation in Sudan and South Sudan signals important longer-term trends for conflict mediation efforts.
Non-Western approaches to peacemaking and peacebuilding
This paper provides an overview of how existing scholarship has addressed non-Western approaches to peacemaking and peacebuilding and outlines some possible future directions for research on the topic.