Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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What does successful mediation require today? The short answer is: considerable resources and participants, long-term social reform, security, and governance. Yet Donald Trump is upending this complex process, reducing mediation to a simple carrot-and-stick model and prioritising quick deals between powerful actors. A historically unsuccessful, dangerous approach that ignores the peace architecture built to prevent renewed conflict.

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