“Chipping Away at the Issues”

Mattes, Michaela

doi:10.1177/0022002716640899

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“…This is not a reference to creeping progress, but to step-wise agreement. It has been observed that many successful settlements have worked because they have operated in stages (referring to segments of the frontier), with settlement of one stage allowing negotiators to move on to the next (Mattes, 2016). In complex settlements, such as that of Northern Ireland, the stages were not successive border segments, but themes, such as the British-Irish relationship, the NorthSouth relationship and relationships between the two communities within Northern Ireland, where separate negotiations, and even stages in negotiation, were possible.…”

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Resolving international border disputes: The Irish experience

Coakley¹

2017

Cooperation and Conflict

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The literature on international border disputes has in recent years focused increasingly on the role played by norm transition in promoting or facilitating new political compromises. This article explores the value of a specific model of norm replacement in accounting for the circumstances leading to Ireland's Good Friday agreement in 1998, which formally and finally settled the long-running territorial dispute between Ireland and the United Kingdom. Drawing on the theoretical literature, it identifies three phases in this process. First, from the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922 until the civil unrest in Northern Ireland peaked in 1972 the irredentist norm was substantially unchallenged. It was embedded in the 1937 constitution, which defined the national territory as extending over the whole island of Ireland-including Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom. The second phase, from about 1972 to 1998, was one of norm competition. The irredentist norm was severely challenged by new political realities in Northern Ireland, and was potentially destabilising for the state itself. It was increasingly challenged by an alternative 'consent' norm, one embracing in effect the geopolitical status quo. The third phase, from 1998 onwards, was one of consolidation of the new norm, now written into the Irish constitution to replace the wording of 1937. The article suggests that this model plays a valuable role in accounting for the changing status of the Irish border, but also that the Irish experience has implications for the broad shape of the model.

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confidence: 99%

Resolving international border disputes: The Irish experience

Coakley¹

2017

Cooperation and Conflict

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“…While the article thus gives insights on both mediation effectiveness and the role of mediation in a dynamic conflict environment, the result that the content of talks matters may also speak to research on the stages or sequencing of conflict resolution (Findley, 2013; Mattes, 2018). Third parties should only expect a more significant reduction in conflict intensity once the parties engage in substantive talks over the main conflict issues.…”

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Impeding fatal violence through third-party diplomacy: The effect of mediation on conflict intensity

Ruhe

2020

Journal of Peace Research

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Existing research provides no systematic insights into if and how mediation impedes battle-related deaths. Therefore, this article presents a temporally disaggregated analysis and assesses the effect of mediation on monthly fatal violence. The article predicts that adversaries evaluate opponents’ trustworthiness from both fighting and negotiation behavior. It argues that reducing fighting intensity during negotiations is a sign of cooperation, which can be negotiated by mediators to build trust. Over the course of mediation, the content of negotiations provides information about how genuinely a conflict party is interested in conflict resolution. Only if mediation achieves negotiation of core incompatibilities will conflict parties be willing to reduce fighting intensity. Under these conditions, information revealed in a mediation process can build trust and substantively reduce violence. An empirical analysis of all African conflicts between 1993 and 2007 supports this prediction and shows that on average mediation is followed by substantive and lasting reductions in fatal violence, if mediation discusses the conflict’s main incompatibility. In contrast, mediation on other topics is associated with a small, fleeting reduction in violence. Data of battle-related fatalities in Syria during negotiations as well as qualitative evidence further support the theoretical mechanism and the model prediction. The study concludes that mediation can reduce conflict intensity substantively, if it achieves exchange between conflict parties on the main conflict issues.

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“…Mobilization of the border as a differential benefits and generate value out of asymmetric cross-border interaction is the model called 'geo-economic' and the border resources involving convergence of both sides either through process of hybridization/innovation or territorial and symbolic recognition that borders entail is 'territorial project.' Matters (2018) has pointed out the model of 'partial settlement in resolving disputes' which signal the desire to resolve disagreements and can lay the foundation for additional cooperation by binding trust and/or demonstrating the benefits of dispute resolution. Partial settlement should be associated with the resolution of remaining disagreements.…”

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Important Factors Applicable in Bilateral Relationships and Conflict Resolution

Rayamajhi

2023

J. APF Command & Staff Coll.

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Important factors applicable in bilateral relationships and conflict resolution are strategies, models, theories, and policies. In simple term, strategy is a long-term plan intended to achieve. An example to follow or imitate is a model. An idea to justify a course of action is a theory whereas law, regulation, and procedure used is a policy. Strategy embodies interest based priorities, which has short, medium, and long-term implications for a country. Model gives template that guides in constructing a system. Theory is essential tool for state craft. Guidance, constancy, accountability, efficiency, and clarity on how an organization operates are provided by policies. The objective of the paper is to examine important factors applicable in bilateral relationships and conflict resolution and highlight important relevant factors. To prepare the paper, qualitative methodology, explanatory research design, descriptive and analytical study design, and secondary sources of related textual and virtual documents are used. .After discussion, relevant strategies of ‘progressive nationalism, frequent dialogues and visits at high level, border diplomacy, pushing into regular constructive dialogues, playing diplomatic roles by a third country, and using International Boundary Research Unit (IBRU);’ models of ‘geo-economic and territorial project model of cross-border integration, bilateral trade flows, and partial settlement in resolving disputes;’ theories of ‘FDI inflow and bilateral political relationships, problem workshops, creation of international regime, and international organizations (IOs) brokered bargaining;’ and policies of ‘bilateral relationships, defense diplomacy, bilateral economic relations, bilateral diplomacy, nonalignment with equal friendships for all and diversification, an equal and respectful but not reciprocal relationships, leaders’ visits and diplomatic conflicts, third party intermediaries, enduring rivalries, pursuit of legal settlement, compromise or escalation or maintenance of status quo or swapping of territory, and uti possidentis or ground realities are highlighted to be adopted by the governments.

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“Chipping Away at the Issues”

Cited by 12 publications

References 39 publications

Resolving international border disputes: The Irish experience

Resolving international border disputes: The Irish experience

Impeding fatal violence through third-party diplomacy: The effect of mediation on conflict intensity

Important Factors Applicable in Bilateral Relationships and Conflict Resolution

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