U.S.mediators face huge gaps as they try to broker a return to talks, with neither side showing signs of a willingness to compromise.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

Awad helped broker talks between the FBI and the families of the young men arrested in Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

McCoy says she believes it may be possible to broker a solution to what she regards as a constitutional crisis in Honduras, but she says both pro- and anti-Zelaya factions will need to recognize what brought it about.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

"They will consider that NATO is not different from the Taliban when it comes to protecting civilians unless NATO will prove to them that it is an honest broker here that it cares about their protection that it acknowledges mistakes that it compensates where possible and that it does everything to reduce the recurrence of similar incidents in future."

VOA: standard.2009.09.07