Mediation and Peacebuilding in an Age of Division: The Wars in Ukraine, South Sudan, and Afghanistan

This book explores the major challenges of mediation during armed conflicts and post-conflict peacebuilding in an age of division, when the permanent members of the UN Security Council are fundamentally divided. The author argues that it is critical to mediate armed conflicts and implement peacebuilding by maintaining the fundamental rules of the international system, such as respecting “national sovereignty, borders of states, and self-determination of peoples,” even in the age of division...