Add to ORKGThis study examines the effect of biased versus neutral mediation on the content of peace agreements. The author argues that neutral mediators, who are engaged primarily because of their interest to end the war, will have incentives to hasten the reaching of an agreement to the expense of its quality. By contrast, biased mediators, seeking to protect their protégés, will take care to ensure that there are stipulations in an agree-ment guaranteeing the interest of “their ” side or use their particular access and leverage to make their side agree to costly concessions. Biased mediation processes are there-fore more likely than neutral mediation processes to lead to elaborated institutional arrangements that are generally considered conducive ...