The “Mediation in Regionalized Conflicts: Lessons from Recent Peace Processes” project focuses on international mediation in intra-state conflicts that have significant regional conflict dynamics. These dynamics tend to make the conflicts more protracted and less amenable to resolution through mediation. The project is based on case studies. The case study on South Sudan analyses the ways in which the regionalization of the civil war affected the mediation undertaken by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in 2013-2015.
The project is led by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. It is supported by the Cross-border Conflict, Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) research program, funded by UK International Development.