ABSTRACT
Conflict management as a sub-field of international relations and peace and security studies will thrive to the extent that policy-relevant questions are raised, debated, and wrestled to the ground. The increasing role and further potential of non-official actors in conflict management is widely recognized in the conflict management literature. It may be appropriate to conclude the overview of the conflict management field by reference to the continued output of both scholarly and practitioner work on conflict prevention. Scholars and practitioners devote increasing attention to the post-settlement peace implementation phase in which the parties to a peace agreement are supposed to carry out their commitments. This critically important dimension of conflict management focuses on the roles and responsibilities of third parties to support the implementation of an agreement in a wide variety of ways that fall under the heading "peacebuilding".
