Canada and track two diplomacy

He is a Senior Research Associate of the Canadian International Council; a member of the Pugwash Council, the international governing body of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; a member of the National Board of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS); a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Trans-Atlantic Relations at the School of Advanced Internatio [...] Acknowledgements This paper is the result of over a decade of facilitating Track Two projects in various parts of the world, teaching the subject at the Graduate and Undergraduate levels at both the University of Ottawa and Queen’s University, and research into how such processes work and how they can be improved. [...] The task of the third party is to provide the setting, create the atmosphere, establish the norms, and offer the occasional interventions that make it possible for such a process to evolve.13 In 1993, Fischer produced a further refinement under the term “Interactive Conflict Resolution.”14 Fisher’s Interactive Conflict Resolution (ICR) has both a focused and a broad dimension: [i]n a focused manne [...] The first is the question of the internal effectiveness of a PSW process – how the perspectives and views of the participants are changed by the workshop process itself. [...] The second is the question of the external effectiveness of the PSW – how the broader nature and course of the conflict are influenced by the ideas that come out of the PSW, and how the participants in the PSW can contribute to this.