Furthermore, it is the balance between the needs and requirements for peace and the application of intervention methods and techniques that will be critical focal point of this evaluation.
This also refers to various studies that discuss the limitations of various conflict resolution attempts. A study by Saner and Yiu entitled External Stakeholder Impacts on Third-Party Interventions in Resolving Malignant Conflicts: The Case of a Failed Third-Party Intervention in Cyprus, serves as initial example. This study explores the potentially positive and negative impact of intervention in terms of the influence of the effect that multiple and competing external stakeholders, such as foreign powers, supranational institutions and NGOs, can have on third-party peace building initiatives. The article describes a Swiss NGO-initiated intercommunal project in Cyprus and evaluates the failure of this confidence-building project by looking at the role of external stakeholders in the intervention.
4. Conclusion: the importance of the research
If one takes a basic assessment of the situation in terms of international relations in the world today, it is obvious that there are many areas of actual and potential violence and conflict. Taking into account the interconnected nature of our modern economies and societies, this conflict has the potential to expand beyond borders and draw in many affected role-players. Given this incendiary situation it follows that conflict reduction; intervention and management are an essential feature of the contemporary international landscape.
It is therefore becoming increasingly imperative to develop insight into the factor that promote positive and successful conflict intervention, as well as determine the aspects that increase conflict. It is to this end that the present proposed study is directed. This research and assessment will therefore hopefully be able to make a contribution to the body of knowledge that provides...
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