Notes
1. For this form of self-assessment, see the questions on the UN Peacemaker home page
(www.un.org/peacemaker) under the section "Managing a Peace Process."
2. The Mediation Support Project is a joint venture between the Swiss Peace Foundation (swisspeace) and the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and is funded by the Swiss FDFA. For more information, see www.css.ethz.ch and www.swisspeace.ch/mediation.
3. This was highlighted by Laurie Nathan regarding the Darfur peace process (comments made during the Peace Mediation Course run by the Swiss FDFA, Schloss Hunigen, Switzerland, March 16, 2009).
4 The results of Harriet Martin's debriefing of mediators is presented in her book, Kings of Peace, Pawns of War: The Untold Story of Peace-making (London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006).
5. For more information on how to use this interviewing style, see section 3.1 (pp. 41-59) in "Conflict-Sensitive Interviewing" in Simon J. A. Mason, From Conflict to Cooperation in the Nile Basin, (Zurich: Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, 2004),
http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/eserv/eth:27328/eth-27328-02.pdf.
6. Nita Yawanarajah used principles of knowledge management articulated by authors such as David Snowdon, Ikujiro Nonaka, and Hirotaka Takeuchi when developing the UN Peacemaker Web site.
7. See, for example, the articles by "insider mediators" Padma Ratna Tuladhar, Franklin Quijano, Leonidas Nijimbere, and Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, at www.berghof-peacesupport. org/mediation_negotiation.htm. Other examples include the book by the senior mediator in the Northern Irish process, George J. Mitchell, Making Peace (New York: Random House, 1999); and the study by Lt. General Sumbeiywo, To Be a Negotiator: Strategies and Tactics (Zurich, Bern: Mediation Support Project, Center for Security Studies, swisspeace, 2009), www.css.ethz.ch/box_feeder/negotiator.pdf.
8. Marshall Rosenberg, Konflikte Losen durch gewaltfreie Kommunikation: Bin Gespräch mit Gabriele Seils (Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 2004). An English-language version is forthcoming.
9. Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William Snyder, Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Know