Italian Initiative on International Mediation

Italy can contribute further to these efforts by scaling up and strengthening the collaboration between public institutions (primarily Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Development and Parliament), civil society and academia, building on positive experiences such as the ones developed by the Northern European countries and Switzerland. These countries have professionalised their foreign policy actors in fields such as dialogue facilitation, conflict mediation, and peacebuilding, built a fruitful network among governmental and non-governmental actors and pro-actively supported international peace mediation efforts.