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Ensuring Conflict Ripeness

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  • Title: Ripeness
    Author(s): I. William Zartman
    Larger Work: Beyond Intractability
    Link to: Webpage
    Publishing Organization: University of Colorado Conflict Information Consortium
    Year: 2003
    Description: A basic description of the concept of ripeness, written by William Zartman, one of the originators of the concept.
  • Title: Chapter 25: Mediator Readiness vs. Conflict Ripeness
    Author(s): Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, Pamela Aall
    Larger Work: Herding Cats
    Link to: Excerpt
    Publishing Organization: United States Institute of Peace
    Description: This excerpt highlights a key distinction that is problematic--mediators may not be ready themselves to act when the situation "on the ground" is ripe--and vice versa.
  • Title: The Structuralist Paradigm of Mediation
    Author(s): Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall
    Larger Work: Chapter 2: Multiparty Mediation in the Conflict Cycle in Herding Cats (p. 20-21)
    Link to: Excerpt
    Publishing Organization: United States Institute of Peace
    Year: 2004
    Description: This paradigm is based on the theory of ripeness.

Analysis

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  • Title: Chapter 17: Timing and Ripeness
    Author(s): I. William Zartman
    Larger Work: The Negotiator's Fieldbook
    Publishing Organization: Convenor Conflict Management
    Year: 2007
    Description: More on timing and ripeness as it is used by negotiators