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1 Cambridge J. Int'l & Comp. L. 107 (2012)
The Law of the Peacemaker: The Role of Mediators in Peace Negotiations and Lawmaking

handle is hein.journals/cajoincla1 and id is 507 raw text is: DOI: 10.7574/cjicl.01.03.59 Cambridge journal of International and Comparative Law (1)3: 107-135 (2012) The Law of the Peacemaker: The Role of Mediators in Peace Negotiations and Lawmaking Cindy Daase' Keywords Mediators, Diplomacy, Peace Negotiations 1 Introduction In 1966 a new comic superhero had his debut: The Peacemaker, alias Christopher Smith, US diplomat and Special Envoy to the Geneva Arms Conference, a convinced pacifist who, as the subtitle announced, Loves peace so much that he is ready to fight for it!' He took up arms for peace in his Peacemaker identity whenever diplomacy ceased to work. In the 4th issue he fought against a villain from the Balkans and his guerrilla troops.2 The Peacemaker, of course, successfully stopped this disturbance of world peace, by using one of his portable atomic bombs.3 The conceptualisation of The Peacemaker superhero character in this 1960s comic is a telling example of the myth that has been constructed around some M.A. (Research Associate). Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO). The author wants to thank John Barker, Mehrdad Payandeh, Christian Schliemann-Radbruch, the participants of the Roundtable with Anne Orford organised by the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the participants of the SIASSI 2012 Workshop Regulating the World Society: Law, Governance and the Quest for Global Justice convened by Alfred C. Aman and Peer Zumbansen and, of course, the organisers and participants of the the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law conference Agents of Change: The Individual as a Participant in the Legal Process for their comments on earlier drafts of this article. The author feels especially indebted to Patricia Hania and Anne Prahtel for their invaluable comments and support. Any mistakes or misconceptions are the author's own. 1Referring to the cover of The Peacemaker, No. 1, 1967. The Peacemaker had his debut in The Fightin'5, No. 40, 1966. 2 The Peacemaker, No. 4, 1967. 3 The Peacemaker comic book turned out to be rather unsuccessful and several attempts to revitalise this superhero in different series were crowned by very modest success. Copyright © the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.

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