1 Empirical Studies in International Mediation Jacob Bercovitch and Scott Sigmund Gartner 2 Is There Method in the Madness of Mediation? Some Lessons for Mediators from Quantitative Studies of Mediation Jacob Bercovitch and Scott Sigmund Gartner 3 Practicing Democratic Community Norms: Third Party Conflict Management and Successful Settlements Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and Kelly M. Kadera and Mark J.C. Crescenzi 4 Softening Up: Making Conflicts More Amenable to Diplomacy J. Michael Greig and Paul F. Diehl 5 Third-Party Intermediaries and Negotiated Settlements, 1946-2000 Derrick V. Frazier and William J. Dixon 6 Credibility and Strategy in International Mediation Zeev Maoz and Lesley G. Terris 7 Biased for Peace: Commitment Problems, Impartiality, and the Effectiveness of Third-Party Guarantees in Asymmetric Intrastate Conflicts Holger Schmidt 8 Power Play: Mediation in Symmetric and Asymmetric International Crises David Quinn and Jonathan Wilkenfeld and Kathleen Smarick and Victor Asal 9 Assessing Mediation Effectiveness in Failed and Fragile States David Carment 10 Mediator Types and the Effectiveness of Information Provision Strategies Burcu Savun 11 Culture and Mediation: Comparing Community Mediation in the Philippines and Taiwan James Wall and Tsungting Chung and Daniel Druckman and Wan Yan and Gil Marvel P. Tabucanon 12 Guaranteeing Peace: The Request for, and Promise of, UN and Non-UN Security Guarantees Isak Svensson 13 CAMEO (Conflict and Mediation Event Observations): An Event Data Framework for a Post Cold War World Deborah J. Gerner and Philip A. Schrodt and omnr Yilmaz.