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Getting In: Mediators' Entry Into the Settlement of African Conflicts.

Publication: African Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-MAR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Getting In: Mediators' Entry Into the Settlement of African Conflicts.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Getting In: Mediators' Entry into the Settlement of African Conflicts. Mohammed O. Maundi, I. William Zartman, Gilbert M. Khadiagala, and Kwaku Nuamah. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006. 256 pp.

Getting In is a well-written piece that delivers on its promise of a systematic study of the entry stage of mediation in macro-level African conflicts or wars. A comparative approach is used to make universal claims supported by interpretations of case studies from Rwanda, Burundi, Congo-Brazzaville, Liberia, Sudan, and the Eritrea-Ethiopia war. The authors use the scholarly literature and media accounts of the events in the targeted areas to describe the background of the conflicts and the attempts to mediate. They also draw on insider information from their contacts and Zartman's participation in the...

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