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Gestures of Conciliation

Factors Contributing to Successful Olive-Branches

By: C. Mitchell

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Hardcover | 15 March 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Gestures of Conciliation examines the ideas, assumptions and theories that underpin how leaders of parties in intractable conflicts begin and sustain a process of peacemaking by offering their adversaries 'olive branches' - in more modern terms symbolic gestures, concessions, tension-reducing moves or confidence-building measures. Using President Anwar Sadat's efforts to start a peace process between Egypt and Israel between 1970 and 1978 as a framework, the book moves from an assessment of factors that helped to make conciliatory initiatives credible and successful in a number of historical cases to more abstract concepts and theories that illuminate what conditions might, in general, make for success in launching a peace process. The author discusses means of overcoming barriers to accurate communication, problems posed by entrapment, the difficult dynamics of mistrust reduction, the need for intra-party consensus formation, and the nature of 'ripe' structural conditions, ending with tentative hypotheses about the overall process of conciliation.

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'...a significant contribution...Mitchell's...rich examination of a wide range of variables involved in the contemplation and implementation of such moves deserves to be read by practitioners and students of conflict resolution alike. This book should become a required text in graduate courses on the techniques of successful conflict resolution.' - Paul D. Senese, American Political Science

'...worth reading for a mature and rational discussion of how conciliatory gestures can be initiated.' - Undala Alam, International Affairs

'...the most complete and comprehensive account of conciliation available, rescuing the concept from relative anonymity and providing a platform of researchers, policy makers, teachers, trainers and active peacemakers to learn from and build on. - Tom Woodhouse, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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List of Tables	p. viii
List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Definitions	p. xii
Prologue: The Sadat Initiatives	p. xiii
Frustration and War: 1970-1973	p. 1
Suez and Jerusalem: 1974-1977	p. 15
Conciliation: Concepts, Frameworks and Models	p. 34
Contexts for Conciliation	p. 60
Varieties of Olive Branch	p. 92
The Nature of the Initiative: Characteristics and Impact	p. 114
Increasing Recognisability	p. 126
Enhancing Credibility	p. 145
Reducing Mistrust	p. 164
Obstacles to Clear Signalling	p. 191
Obstacles to Prompt Reacting	p. 221
Conciliation and Intra-Party Conflicts	p. 238
Channels for Conciliation	p. 252
Hypotheses on Conciliation	p. 278
Epilogue: Nearing Camp David	p. 292
Notes	p. 300
Bibliography	p. 314
Index	p. 323
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Gestures of Conciliation

Factors Contributing to Successful Olive-Branches

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