Words over war : mediation and arbitration to prevent deadly conflict / edited by Melanie C. Greenberg, John H. Barton, and Margaret E. McGuinness.

Multilateral mediation in intrastate conflicts: Russia, the United Nations, and the war in Abkhazia / Arthur Kahachikian -- From Lisbon to Dayton: international mediation and the Bosnia crisis / Melanie C. Greenberg and Margaret E. McGuinness -- Croatian independence from Yugoslavia, 1991-1992 / Alan Hanson -- The Oslo Channel: benefits of a neutral facilitator to secret negotiations / William J. Bien -- The 1911 Cambodia settlement agreements / Tali Levy -- El Salvador / Barbara Messing -- The role of international mediation in the Northern Ireland peace process / Kevin King -- The Arusha accords and the failure of international intervention in Rwanda / Joel Stettenheim -- South Africa: the negotiated transition from Apartheid to nonracial democracy / Peter Bouckaert -- Making waves: third parties and international mediation in the Aral Sea Basin / Erika Weinthal -- The Vatican mediation of the Beagle Channel dispute: crisis interventionand forum building / Mark Laudy -- The North Korean nuclear proliferati