2021
DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiaa229
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The missing sense of peace: diplomatic approachment and virtualization during the COVID-19 lockdown

Abstract: With the unprecedented COVID-lockdown in 2020, most peace diplomacy turned virtual. This represented a temporary loss of many of the usual practices and provided an opportunity to examine virtual diplomacy as well as all that was lost in the absence of physicality. Based on interviews with parties and mediators involved in the peace processes of Syria and Yemen, we analyse the affordances of virtual and physical meetings respectively. Particularly, virtual meetings condition peace diplomacy in terms of broaden… Show more

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“… 3 See 2020 forums/special issues in The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, International Organization , and Bramsen and Hagemann (2021 ). …”
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“… 3 See 2020 forums/special issues in The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, International Organization , and Bramsen and Hagemann (2021 ). …”
Section: Footnotesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“… 4 See the difference between accounts of “Chinese mask diplomacy” ( Verma 2020 ) or “Russian anti-COVID assistance” ( Terry and Makarychev 2021 ) in bilateral relations versus accounts on the means of diplomatic exchange in multilateral settings like the UN ( Naylor 2020 ; Bramsen and Hagemann 2021 ), ASEAN ( Kliem 2021 ; Rüland 2021 ), or the EU (this study). …”
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“…Alfred reflects that he became a de facto working group leader only because he was comfortable leading virtual meetings. Hitherto unknown or irrelevant skills become a means of influencing the diplomatic field, accelerated by the Covid-19 lockdown (Bramsen & Hagemann, 2021). A different dynamic emerges in the case of Clara.…”
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“…The second study, conducted by Bramsen and Hagemann (2021), discusses the impact of COVID-19 on Syrian and Yemeni peace processes. Through a series of semi-structured interviews, they examine negotiators' experience of adaptation to virtual venues.…”
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confidence: 99%