Conflict, violence, politics, negotiation, institutions, government, mediation, peace processes

Abstract

In the essay seeks to elaborate and explain observed, especially for those less accustomed to walk the paths of political science, various relationships between the concepts that refer to the connection between common life, human relations, with conflict and political trying to understand how and why it happens, in order to assess to what extent the response that provides policy is effective, and to what extent the art of mediation is an alternative to more traditional institutions that emerged to deal with conflict and violence , tracing different routes through the development of some very significant of thought to what will be cited, where appropriate, to various well known authors, showing, at a time, how certain hard evidence presents some of the causes the situation-frame-analyzed. Whereas the discredited policy is the one who seeks mediation, which must also be implemented with political decisions. The tours that take place, especially at first, is through the evolution of thought and of political institutions and their purpose is to show that the authors and the structures seen, usually known by looking at other issues, also address questions to which this test is concerned. At last it is generally of certain classics that can be analyzed from different perspectives and it is always necessary to revisit.