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Kontrasterna av Richard Holbrookes och Carl Bildts medlingssätt och strategier i Bosnien
Richard HolbrookeMedlingCarl BildtBosnienDaytonavtaletPolitical and administrative sciencesStatsvetenskapFörvaltningskunskapLaw and Political Science
This study focuses on international mediation and mediation theory. The aim of the study is to bring into light, a critique on already exsisting mediation theory and the need to oversimplify generalisations and results. This study focuses on a comparison between Richard Holbrooke and Carl Bildt, and their roles? as mediators during the war in Bosnia and Hercegovina 1995. I have deliberatly chosen two very different actors on the same case, to show that traditional belif on why the war ended is oversimplyfied and wrong.This study uses Curran, Sebenius and Watkins paper on mediation as a template in defining how to use the criterias for analyzing a mediator. This means that the study has a theory-testing ambition, but also a theory-developing carracter since the elements of culture and personality ar added into the explanation of the mediators roles and the strategies that they undertook.In the end the the result of this study is that there is no ?one recipe? to how mediators should act, or to which type of mediator is the right on different conflicts. Instead the argument is that different strategies and different roles can coexist even in the same case. The simplification of existing mediation theory, especially on the Bosnian war is therefore wrong.