ABSTRACT
For nearly 40 years now, my colleagues and I have developed and applied an unofficial, academically-based, third-party approach to the resolution of international and intercommunal conflicts, which I have come to call “interactive problem-solving.” The approach is a form of unofficial – or what is now often called “track two” diplomacy. It has also been described as “informal mediation by the scholar-practitioner” (Kelman, 2002) to emphasize the unofficial and facilitative form of the intervention and the academic base of the third party.
