ABSTRACT
Cooperation and coordination between multiple mediators should produce complementarity and positive interconnections between their intermediary roles and thereby make a positive contribution to international peacemaking. This chapter examines how different third-party efforts in the mediation of the Tajikistan conflict were constructively interconnected and how potential problems were thus minimized. The chapter seeks to do so in the light of the four relationships: (1) states; (2) states and the UN; (3) the UN and regional organizations; and (4) official and unofficial peace processes. The chapter also makes an initial attempt at conceptualizing and categorizing the revealed interconnections between the roles of the major intervenors in the Tajik peace process.
