Titlebook: Gestures of Conciliation; Factors Contributing Christopher Mitchell Book 2000 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limite

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Obstacles to Prompt Reacting,the nature and clarity of that signal, as well as its credibility. Together with influences (previously discussed) arising from the overall circumstances of the conflict itself (the context), these factors should have a major effect on the immediate and longer-term success of the conciliatory move.

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Channels for Conciliation,annels which can be employed in situations of conflict, and completes the discussion of the five sets of influences, outlined in Figure 13.1, that help to determine the relative success of individual conciliatory gestures, accommodative sequences and overall peace processes.

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Conciliation: Concepts, Frameworks and Models,ng often started, or resumed, as the result of a unilateral, sometimes ‘stalemate-breaking’ initiative on the part of one or other of the adversaries,such moves being part of a broad category of actions or statements which I term ‘conciliatory gestures’. Such gestures or actions should be regarded a

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Contexts For Conciliation,ly to influence the manner in which the conciliatory gesture was contemplated, initiated, recognised, acknowledged and reacted to. The five were: the context of the conflict itself, the nature of the initiative, the condition of both the initiator and the target and the channels through which the in

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The Nature of the Initiative: Characteristics and Impact,ssful moves in situations of protracted conflict. This raised at least the possibility that an observer could look for certain qualities associated with greater or lesser effectiveness, while a practitioner could examine any planned or proposed gestures, or those used by an adversary, to see whether

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Enhancing Credibility, in engaging the attention of the decision-makers in their adversary, further success will depend upon the gesture’s capacity to elicit from the target’s decision-makers a positive (and generally shared) evaluation that the signal ‘a(chǎn)ccurately represents what the sender . do in the future’ (Jervis 19