Mediation in 2025: Mediation across overlapping conflict systems
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Mediation in 2025 reached an inflection point, with interstate mediation increasingly
embedded within internationalised intrastate conflicts rather than operating
as a standalone diplomatic tool. Such mediation activity increasingly reflected not
discrete wars, but overlapping conflict systems characterised by escalation of risks,
regional spillover, and multi-actor entanglement.
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