ABSTRACT
The research field “conflict management” † is best understood as thoroughly multidisciplinary, encompassing disciplines, such as international law, psychology, socio-biology, political science, economics, and social anthropology. Focusing on questions of the source and nature of conflict as well as on third-party interventions and their characteristics, the research community of conflict management has done little to provide comprehensive state-of-the-art reviews (Reimann, 2004). In light of this diagnosis the present chapter sets out to review one particular subsection of the field.
