The osce's Mediation in the Transdniestrian Settlement Process Challenges of Third Party Engagement in a Post-Soviet Environment

This article focuses on challenges to peace mediation in the post-Soviet context by looking at the the case study of the Transdniestrian (TD) settlement process. It offers a brief overview of the osce led TD process and aims to explain why the conflict has failed to "respond" to the osce (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) led mediation efforts. Highlighting key process design shortcomings, the article offers a series of recommendations to practitioners to improve mediation processes in the osce context.