African Union in Search of Peace and Reconciliation in Burundi and Comoros. [Monograph]

... 8 Although the facilitation team and the administrative staff were relatively large, Delay's study shows the people from the Mwalimu Foundation and the Tanzanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs had no specialized knowledge of Burundi or the involved parties (Delay 2007). The facilitation team had only limited access to reliable and independent information on parties' capabilities and views, and they consequently misperceived numerous issues (Francis & Tieku 2009). The Darfurian mediation team had the opposite problem. ...

... 8 Although the facilitation team and the administrative staff were relatively large, Delay's study shows the people from the Mwalimu Foundation and the Tanzanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs had no specialized knowledge of Burundi or the involved parties (Delay 2007). The facilitation team had only limited access to reliable and independent information on parties' capabilities and views, and they consequently misperceived numerous issues (Francis & Tieku 2009). The Darfurian mediation team had the opposite problem. ...