How to analyze the conflict?
... get some kind of deal. Any successful negotiation implies some movements, it requires cooperation to move creatively away from a stalemate, and that requires an attempt to see things from the other side, as well as your own. That is the basic idea of conflict analysis. Photo: theepochtimes.com Zambian soldiers from the UN peacekeeping force sit atop an armoured personnel carrier at the UN base in Sudan's Abyei town One example that I was personally involved with was the Cambodian peace process in the 1990s where there was the government of Cambodia as one actor, there were other actors such as the Khmer Rouge, who was opposed both to the government and to the United Nations intervention (the UN was active there). There was a peace ...