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Looking for keys under street lights
A. P. Reeler , Research and Advocacy Unit, Idasa
December 08, 2008

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Any successful mediation or negotiation depends on the creation of trust, which is no easy task when the political stakes are very high and the situation is desperate. Trust cannot be imposed; it must be created, and it is this that bedevils the current process. It also raises an enormous question about the bona fides of the Facilitation and the Facilitator: when one party, let alone a nation, openly expresses reservations about the Facilitator, why does he not recuse himself, no matter how much confidence the region may have in him? If he does not, then we will continue looking under street lights for keys that will never be found.

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