Evaluating the explanatory value of Brahimi And Ahmed’s Seven Deadly Sins Of Mediation : the case of the Malagasy mediation of 2009-2014

dc.contributor.advisorSchoeman, Maxi
dc.contributor.emailmasuphanthati@gmail.comen_ZA
dc.contributor.postgraduateMasupha, Nthati
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-25T11:47:34Z
dc.date.available2019-06-25T11:47:34Z
dc.date.created2019
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionDissertation (MA Security Studies)--University of Pretoria 2019.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe pursuit of international peace and security continues to lead international actors to pacify conflicts that could potentially evolve into or have already employed violence. In line with this pursuit, international mediation practitioners, Lakhdar Brahimi and Salman Ahmed, have observed seven variables, which they refer to as ‘The seven deadly sins of mediation’, that contribute to ineffective mediation and consequentially jeopardise the quality of the resultant peace. Testifying that mediation is a difficult undertaking, the 2009-2014 mediation process in Madagascar experienced multiple challenges and the resultant peace has been described as fragile. Brahimi and Ahmed’s work is applied in this study as an analytical framework to evaluate the mediation process in Madagascar during the period 2009-2014, and thus indicate the explanatory value of the framework itself. The research links challenges faced by the Malagasy mediation to six of the seven original sins in the framework, indicating that the framework has some explanatory value. The research further demonstrates that the identification of the sins in a mediation process forebodes a strong predisposition to ineffective mediation, yet each mediation case may present an additional sin or sins to append to Brahimi and Ahmed’s original list. Through scrutinizing the events of the Malagasy mediation, the study identifies an additional problem; the lack of a clear mandate, to have been catalytic to the mediation’s challenges and ineffectiveness, as well as the fragile resultant peace.en_ZA
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dc.description.degreeMA Security Studiesen_ZA
dc.description.departmentPolitical Sciencesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMasupha, N 2019, Evaluating the explanatory value of Brahimi And Ahmed’s Seven Deadly Sins Of Mediation : the case of the Malagasy mediation of 2009-2014, MA Security Studies Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/70294>en_ZA
dc.identifier.otherS2019en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/70294
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoria
dc.rights© 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
dc.subjectUCTDen_ZA
dc.subjectInternational Mediationen_ZA
dc.subjectConflict management and resolutionen_ZA
dc.subjectSecurityen_ZA
dc.titleEvaluating the explanatory value of Brahimi And Ahmed’s Seven Deadly Sins Of Mediation : the case of the Malagasy mediation of 2009-2014en_ZA
dc.typeMini Dissertationen_ZA

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