Regulation

At the conclusion of the last chapter, I emphasized that the most immediate impression one gains from reviewing the range of conflict-mitigation practices is the sheer variety of activities that come under the heading of “mitigation”. However, anyone not put off by the heterogeneous nature of all of these activities will notice that there is, indeed, a common thread running through all of them, from efforts to establish spaces, times and categories of people that are free from violence, to day-to-day action to bring relief supplies to civilians in warzones. To reiterate, all are intended to place some limits on what parties in even the most intractable conflicts can do as a result of being in a relationship of conflict.