Contemporary conflict resolution processes: diagnoses and therapies

A typology on conflict resolution processes has been elaborated, starting from Galtung’s analytic models. The concept of world order has been defined as a government capability that has to be linked to some fixed values (the unity of measure), that in post/’89 four power arenas of international relations are: (military) peace, (political) democracy, (economic) market and (cultural) national self/determination. In fact, as current major powers usually prefer pluri/national states, current world politics is characterized by a “near” order. In the second (empirical) part of the essay, the typology has been applied to nearly 90 post-’89 armed conflict resolution processes. Few conflicts have been resolved, and many conflicts are currently frozen or characterized by unstable resolution process: either asymmetrical (dominion, incapacitation or administrative autonomy) or short-term oriented (consensual pacts). Federalism is rare, but is the most stable resolution process.