Track Two Diplomacy in Theory and Practice by Peter Jones

By Peter Jones

Song international relations involves casual dialogues between actors akin to teachers, spiritual leaders, retired senior officers, and NGO officers that may convey new rules and new relationships to the legit technique of diplomacy.

Sadly, these excited about professional international relations usually have little knowing of and appreciation for the complicated and nuanced position that song can play, or for its boundaries. and lots of song practitioners are frequently ignorant of the realities and pressures of the coverage and diplomatic worlds, and never rather adept at framing their efforts to lead them to obtainable to hard-pressed officers. while, these drawn to the educational examine of song occasionally fail to appreciate the realities confronted by means of both set of practitioners.

A want as a result exists for a piece to bridge the divides among those constituencies and among the differing kinds of music practice—and this e-book crosses disciplines and traditions for you to just do that. It explores many of the dimensions and guises of song , the idea and perform of ways they paintings, and the way either practitioners and lecturers may extra profitably investigate tune . total, it offers a finished photo of the diversity of actions pursued below this name, to impress new puzzling over how those actions relate to one another, to reputable international relations, and to academe.

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As this brief exploration of various terms and concepts illustrates, the field of Track Two is multifaceted and fluid. The terminology is far from fixed, and the same terms can be used to mean quite different things. For my own purposes, I have come to define the term “Track Two” as unofficial dialogues, generally between two antagonistic parties, and often facilitated by an impartial Third Party and involving individuals with some close connections to their respective official communities, focused on cooperative efforts to explore new ways to resolve differences over, or discuss new approaches to, policy-relevant issues.

Some have taken the view that Track Two’s essential purpose must be to support Track One and to help participants in difficult conflicts get to a place where official negotiations can begin. For example, Burgess and Burgess, in the context of writing a handbook on how to undertake What Is Track Two Diplomacy? 21 Track Two processes, offer this definition: “Track I is used here to describe any activities that bring the parties to a conflict into direct negotiation to achieve an agreement or a resolution.

Moreover, they foresee that the discussions which go on within their processes will likely require official diplomacy surrounding the conflict to change radically in response to the ideas they generate. Of course, the definitions advanced by Burgess and Burgess and the others are not mutually exclusive in practice. Thus Saunders writes, “My own inclination is not to be too precious in drawing lines. ”43 Still others argue that the field must focus instead on the grassroots level. ” Leading analysts of the conflict transformation field, such as Lederach, Curle, and Galtung, increasingly believe that excessive attention to elite levels has led to a field overwhelmingly oriented towards managing conflicts rather than transforming societies in conflict.

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