Mental Models in International Conflict Engagement International engagement in situations of violent conflict—or in the presumed aftermath—sets these situations up for a never-ending violent path. The most recent and painful examples of this are events in Myanmar and Sudan, with the situation rapidly deteriorating in other places, for example Tunisia. That international engagement has a …

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Conflict Research Society Conference 2023 Panel 4F – S3.30 Rethinking the Process: New Approaches to Peacebuilding Chair: Meredith Carbonell ● Paper 1: Ali Altiok, Artificial Intelligence and Peacemaking ● Paper 2: Meredith Carbonell, Mediation After Mass Atrocities ● Paper 3: Isabel Philips, Dispute, the state and commercial actors: Mandating mediation for others vs using it …

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