While none of this argues for keeping the colonel in power, it does suggest the challenges the United States would face in trying to mediate between groups after he is gone.
The State Department has been mediating between the groups.
This policy has led to a number of Swedish politicians taking on international roles, often mediating between conflicting groups or ideologies.
If peacekeepers had a more aggressive counterterrorism mandate, she and others argue, that could hurt the United Nations' ability to mediate between warring groups, which sometimes include violent Islamists.
Faith leaders have played a crucial role, providing refuge in churches and mosques, offering humanitarian assistance and forming the Inter-Religious Platform to mediate between armed groups and communities and call for international action.
He channeled public funds to construct schoolrooms and boreholes for wells, lured Western development agencies to his constituency, mediated between ethnic groups in the region that have been clashing over livestock-grazing rights and access to water and distributed some of his ample salary to pay school fees and health-care costs for the indigent.
Governments frequently find themselves in the position of mediating between different cultural and heritage groups over a wide range of issues which extend far beyond narrow conceptions of culture and (heritage) preservation as the interfaces between heritage and culture and the contemporary world become ever more complex.
With business at Muradh's export agency paralyzed by the Saudi-led blockade choking off most movement into Yemen, he started mediating between Yemeni businessmen, boat owners, and groups of people trying to leave the country.
Young men, desperate for answers, surrounded Amr Hamzawy, who belongs to a group that was mediating between the protesters and the government.
Another Ukrainian official told Reuters at the post that he was now mediating between the Ukrainian forces and the armed group inside, and that no arms had been seized.
This group of professionals reviews individual cases, often mediating between victim and offender.
