ABSTRACT
The Sudan experience provides suggestions for mediation strategies and techniques. The Sudan experience provides the insight that the intermediary may be able to help one party without generating much hostility from the other if both parties have a high level of trust in the intermediary. The Sudan experience also provides insight about the utility of mediation for the resolution of similar conflicts in other countries. The Sudan experience has some general theoretical implications as well. Study of this mediation process once again draws attention to the controversy concerning the importance of the personal aspects of the mediator for successful mediation. The Sudan experience suggests that in conflicts which entail large-scale human suffering, humanitarian agencies, such as the World Council of Churches, the International Committee of the Red Cross, Oxfam, could have an important mediatory potential. In this kind of conflict, such humanitarian agencies have a great advantage over many other organizations in obtaining access to the conflicting parties.
