Most regions of the world are plagued by conflicts that are made
insoluble by a confluence of complex threads from history,
geography, politics, and culture. These "frozen conflicts" defy
conflict management interventions by both internal and external
agents and institutions. Worse, they constantly threaten to extend
beyond their local geographies, as in the terrorist bombings in
Boston by ethnic Chechens, or to escalate from skirmishes to
full-scale war, as in Nagorno-Karabakh. Consequently, such
conflicts cry out for alternative approaches to the classic,
state-focused, and sovereignty-based conflict management models
that are practiced in traditional diplomacy-which most often
produce rather short-term, ad hoc, fragmented interventions and
outcomes. Drawing upon the cases of the South Caucasus, the Western
Balkans, Central America, South East Asia, and Northern Ireland,
Networked Regionalism as Conflict Management offers a theoretical
and practical solution to this impasse by arguing for regional
collective interventions that involve a long-term reengineering of
existing conflict management infrastructure on the ground. Such
approaches have been attracting the attention of scholars and
practitioners alike yet, thus far, these concepts have rarely
involved more than simple prescriptions for regional cooperation
between grassroots actors and traditional diplomacy. Specifically,
says Anna Ohanyan, only the cultivation and establishment of
regional peace systems can provide an effective path toward
conflict management in these standoffs in such intractably divided
regions.
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