Mediation in the Yugoslav Wars: The Critical Years, 1990-95 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333965030)

Has any good come out of the efforts to mediate the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia? The short answer is, 'Yes, but...' Mediation has brought about agreements that halted the fighting in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia. Yet, the negotiations took too long, and their achievements came too late. Between 1991 and 1995 some two hundred thousand people lost their lives, and close to two million were uprooted from their homes. Saadia Touval examines why the efforts to reach a negotiated solution have not been more effective. He calls attention to two lessons: that collective mediation faces much greater obstacles than mediation by individual states, and that a mediator's priority should be saving lives, rather than aiming at other objectives, or even pursuing justice.

Author: S. Touval
ISBN-10: 0333965035
ISBN-13: 9780333965030
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2001
Pages: 211
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.88h x 6.08w x 0.76d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2002 pg. 551