Maintaining Order, Making Peace

Oliver P. Richmond is the author of "Mediating in Cyprus".

This study explores three generations of approaches to ending conflict in the context of the failings of the Westphalian international system. It asks what role such approaches have played and are playing in replicating an international system prone to intractable forms of conflict.This study explores three generations of approaches to ending conflict and examines how, in the context of the failings of the Westphalian international system, their peacekeeping, mediation and negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding approaches as well as UN peace operations, and asks via an empirical and theoretical analysis, what role such approaches have played and are playing in replicating an international system prone to intractable forms of conflict.