Peace Processes

Author: Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London School of Economics
Publication Date: 2010
Keywords: Peace Processes
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This Paper is the product of a one-day seminar on the spoiler concept held in March 2010, co-organised by FCO Research Analysts and the London School of Economics. The seminar brought together HMG officials, academics and practitioners, including experts on Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere. 

Key lessons for policy-makers emerging from the seminar include understanding that mostactors in a conflict will use spoiling behaviour as a tactic, but should not be seen as static in their outlook or labelled as unambiguously opposed to peace. We shou... Read More

Author: Martin Griffiths & Teresa Whitfield
Institution:Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Publication Date: 2010
Keywords: Peace Processes; Conflict
Read Full Text Here: http://www.hdcentre.org/files/Mediating%2010yrs%20cropped.pdf

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On the 10^th anniversary of the founding of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HDC), noting that the numbers of negotiated settlements to armed conflict increased post-Cold War, this Paper sets out the evolving landscape of conflict, the changing field of mediation, challenges to talking to ‘terrorists’ and other armed groups and highlights the challenges faced to implementing peace agreements. The Paper is useful for those interested in better understanding contemporary challenges ... Read More

Author: StephenJ. Stedman
Institution: International Security, Vol. 22 no. 2
Publication Date: 1997
Keywords:  Peace Processes, Conflict
Read Full Text Here: http://fsi.stanford.edu/publications/spoiler_problems_in_peace_processes/

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Though over 10 years old, this article remains one of the most authoritative academic articles on the role of spoilers in peace processes. The greatest source of risk to peace processes comes from spoilers – leaders and parties who believe that peace emerging from negotiations threatens their power, worldview and interests and use violence to undermine attempts to achieve this. The research contained in the article is a first step towards understanding the spoiler problem in... Read More

Institution: UNIFEM
Publication Date: October 2005
Keywords: Peace Processes; Gender
Read Full Text Here: http://www.peacewomen.org/assets/file/Resources/UN/unifem_securingpeace_2005.pdf

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The report highlights the importance of women’s involvement at every stage of the peace process in order to ensure long-term gains following war.  The publication highlights the various roles the international community plays in peace processes: setting the agenda, acting as official third party mediators, facilitators or trusted ‘outsider neutrals’, sponsoring or hosting peace talks, offering support and encouragement to negotiating partners to move the process forward. Reflecting these critical roles, the publication provides practical... Read More

Institution: Conciliation Resources, ACCORD
Publication Date: 2008
Keywords: Peace Processes
Read Full Text Here:  http://www.c-r.org/our-work/accord/pdfs/index.php (please note requires registration to read)

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International policymakers frequently rely upon the use of sanctions, incentives and conditionality hoping that these policy instruments can alter the parties’ strategic calculus in a way that results in changes to their behaviour and to the dynamics of the conflict.

Using a wide range of case studies, including Darfur, Northern Ireland, and Sri Lanka, this project analyses the use of sanctions, incentives and conditionality from the standpoint of whether they underpin or undermine peace processes (i.e. the formal and infor... Read More

Author: Anthony Wanis-St. John
Institution: International Negotiation
Publication Date: 2008
Related themes: Great Lakes; MENA; Conflict; Political settlement
Read Full Text Here: www.aupeace.org/files/Wanis,%20Intro%20JIN%2013.1.pdf

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This publication argues that systemic consideration of peace processes are needed to look at: the interrelationships between elites conducting negotiations; parties marginalised by those negotiations; the potentially vast and diverse civic sphere and its connections to both the population at large and political elites; and the dynamic engagement of the international community. This publication provides a modest attempt to delve into some of t... Read More

Author: Teresa Whitfield
Institution: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Publication Date: 2010
Keywords: Peace Processes; Conflict, Afghanistan; MENA
Read Full Text Here:http://www.hdcentre.org/files/HDC_MPS3_EN_web_0.pdf

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This Paper addresses engagement by those working towards peace processes which involve formal interaction between elders. The focus is on the dilemmas, challenges and risks involved in a mediator’s early contacts with an armed group and subsequent engagement as interlocutor, message-carrier, adviser and facilitator.  Brief conclusions are included.  The Paper benefits from case studies including coping with pre-conditions on Hamas and as regards the International Criminal Court and the Lords Resistance Army in conf... Read More

Author: Lakhdar Brahimi, Salman Ahmed
Institution: New York University Center for International Cooperation
Publication Date: 2008
Keywords: Peace Processes, Peacekeeping, Conflict
Read Full Text Here: http://www.cic.nyu.edu/peacekeeping/docs/archive/2008/brahimi_7sins.pdf

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The Essay focuses on the role of Special Representatives of the Secretary-General (SRSG) or other international mediators who are leaders of peace operations in helping the parties to resolve conflict and, more broadly, undertake their ‘political role’.  The Essay highlights the importance of political process management undertaken by peacekeeping operations.  This Essay is useful for those wishing to understand peacemaking,... Read More

Author: Ian Johnstone
Institution: NYU Center for International Cooperation
Publication Date: 2010
Keywords: Peace Processes, Conflict, Multinational/International Institutions, Stabilisation
Read Full Text Here: http://www.cic.nyu.edu/politicalmissions/docs_missions/chapters/johnstone_emerging2.pdf

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This Essay focuses attention on an under-researched area, political missions mandated by international and regional organisations. The Essay identifies the scope of such mandates, together with dilemmas and challenges and then sets out a number of guiding principles for political missions. This Essay provides an important starting point to clarifying what political missions should do and how to... Read More

Author: Theodore Murphy and Jerome Tubiana
Publication Date: September 2010
Keywords: Peace Processes; Community Engagement; Sudan
Read Full Text Here: http://www.usip.org/files/resources/Civil%20Society%20in%20Darfur%20-%20Sept.%202010.pdf

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This Special Report focuses on the role of civil society in Darfur in the ongoing peace process. Though the report is focused on the Darfur context, the report ably brings out lessons and experiences that are relevant to the role of civil society in peace processes more broadly.
The Special Report is useful for those wishing to better understand the role of civil society in peace processes, as well as for t... Read More