The Role of Mediators in Ongoing Conflicts

Mediators Rush to Prevent Region from Sinking Into Chaos

Gulf News
April 15, 2011

Several conflicts in the Middle East are threatening to become long-running stalemates with the appearance of characteristics of civil war. “Besides Libya and Yemen, in Bahrain and Syria too, there seems little chance of a rapid or widely acceptable settlement. Can mediation help?”

In fact, many mediators - mostly from the region itself - are offering mediation services in an attempt to save the Arab revolution from degenerating into uncontrollable chaos. “The euphoric democratic wave of the early days has been replaced by a harsher, grimmer mood, suggesting that the revolution has entered a new and more violent phase” which makes the role of mediators even more important.

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