Reframing Peace Mediation

Overcoming Negotiation Impasses in El Salvador

Owen Frazer

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Routledge
26 December 2025

Regional studies; Peace studies & conflict resolution; Hispanic & Latino studies; International relations; Warfare & defence

Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

This book explains how facilitative mediators, those without material leverage, contribute to progress in peace negotiations.

While existing theories of mediation have offered suggestions about what a mediator should get parties to do to reach an agreement, the puzzle that has remained is: how does a mediator get parties to do what is prescribed? The book argues that a communication perspective is key to understanding facilitative mediation and that framing is the main mechanism by which facilitative mediation functions. Based on an empirical analysis of the United Nations mediation in El Salvador between 1990 and 1992, the work breaks new ground by uncovering three underlying mechanisms that explain how a mediator can get their framing adopted by the negotiating parties, thereby advancing the negotiations. The book offers a novel theory of facilitative mediation as framing and an innovative methodological approach that focuses on negotiation impasses to study the process of how negotiations progress. Practitioners will also appreciate the framework for thinking about when and how framing and reframing can be used to increase mediation’s effectiveness as a tool for ending armed conflict.

This book will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies, negotiation, Latin American politics, and International Relations, as well as practitioners.

By: Owen Frazer
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 410g
ISBN: 9781032732077
ISBN 10: 1032732075
Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 26 December 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Owen Frazer is a conflict resolution scholar/practitioner with 20 years of experience working on conflict. His PhD from the University of Birmingham won the Development Studies Association PhD Thesis Prize in 2023.

Reviews for Reframing Peace Mediation: Overcoming Negotiation Impasses in El Salvador

'This book breaks new ground by adding depth and humanity to a notoriously dry field of study and by shining a light on what practitioners of the arcane craft of mediation can bring to the search for peace.' Alvaro de Soto, chief UN mediator, El Salvador Peace Accord, 1990-1992 'This is an essential book for anyone interested in how peace mediation actually works. Frazer shows how facilitative mediators can help bring parties toward the resolution of armed conflicts using the practice of framing. Is the art and science of peace mediation beginning to meet?' Isak Svensson, Dag Hammarskjöld Professor in Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University ‘Owen Frazer’s meticulous analysis of the negotiation of the end of El Salvador’s civil war throws new light on the practice of facilitative mediation. His nuanced interrogation of the mediator’s role in helping the conflict parties overcome impasses is a significant contribution to our understanding of the importance of “framing” in mediation.’ Teresa Whitfield, former Director, Policy and Mediation Division, UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs