Rethinking peace & transition processes in a changing conflict landscape
Seminars, discussions and more from PeaceRep consortium members.
This brief sets out the various contexts in which different forms of political power-sharing are established in peace agreements. It indicates the challenges for women but also for other...
This brief focuses on the relevance of security arrangements in peace processes to women. Security provisions in peace agreements tend to focus on security in relation to armed actors...
Authors: Laura Wise and Christine Bell This brief presents the different forms of territorial power-sharing that arise in peace agreements, and the potential opportunities and risks for women’s inclusion...
This brief sets out guiding questions for women seeking to brainstorm and engage in constitutional reform processes, and notes some of the key areas where a gender influence is...
Authors: Astrid Jamar and Christine Bell This brief sets out a gender and women’s rights analysis of transitional justice in peace agreements. Transitional justice mechanisms provide a measure of...
(S)electing Constitution-Making Bodies in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings Citation: Download report in English and Arabic. Key recommendations: Peace mediators and constitutional advisors should bear in mind that the constitution-building...
Author: Astrid Jamar This report reviews efforts to include victims in transitional justice programmes, and the difficulties of managing the politics of inclusion in the transitional justice setting. It...
Borderlands and Peacebuilding: a View from the Margins Citation: Download the report. Download the Spotlight introduction, ‘Bringing in the Margins’. Abstract: This fourth Accord Insight publication looks at peacebuilding...
Authors: Kevin McNicholl, Clifford Stevenson and John Garry The conventional understanding of the nation within social psychology is as a category of people or “imagined community.” However, work within...
Author: Sean Molloy Business provisions feature in peace agreements in a range of ways. Peace agreements can refer to the roles that businesses can play in peacebuilding or post-conflict...
Structural pressures and political instability Trajectories for sub-Saharan Africa Citation: Download report. Summary: Sub-Saharan Africa faces many structural pressures that increase the risk of political instability and violent conflict....
Author: Louise Mallinder This report explores when and how amnesties are used during conflict and transitions towards peace. In particular, it examines how the context in which amnesties are...
