What Can Unofficial Cross-Conflict Dialogue Do?: Contributions of Georgian-South Ossetian Interactive Peacemaking

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Abstract

Georgian-South Ossetian interactive peacemaking has engaged across the ceasefire line since the early 1990s eruption of violence in the Georgian-South Ossetian relationship. Over different phases of the conflict, unofficial cross-conflict dialogue has taken a different focus and made different contributions. This paper overviews the decades of interactive peacemaking and presents a range of ways that unofficial dialogue can make a difference in the changing contexts over time

Author

• Susan H. Allen, George Mason U