International Mediation Bias and Peacemaking Foundations is today but a distant

is today but a distant memory

to the field

This book was originally published as a special issue of Visual Cognition

and substantially rewritten several parts of the book

the Saints' exile from Missouri and Illinois

International Mediation Bias and Peacemaking Foundations is today but a distantThis book examines the effect of biased and neutral mediators in civil wars. Based on analysis of both global data and case studies of contemporary peace processes, including India and Norway in Sri Lanka, China in Cambodia, US in Israel Palestine, and Russia in Georgia, the book makes two main contributions. First, it explores the role of biased mediators in contemporary peace processes. The author develops a theory explaining why biased mediators