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Global Realignments: Understanding Peace Process Interventions Through News

This report describes findings from analysis of global media perceptions of interventions in peace-related activities, using GDELT – a Google-based database of coded global news stories – as a...

Peace Processes and Their Agreements

The authors explore how formalized peace processes function and how established practices are challenged by new global realignments and forms of conflict, and suggest new methods for dealing with...

Ways of seeing: Peace process data-viz as a research practice

This article uses John Berger’s idea (1972) that images are connected to ‘ways of seeing’ to reflect on the creation of interactive visualizations of peace agreement and peace process...

Designing an interactive real-time web-mapped dashboard to visualise conflict ceasefires...

Authors: Devanjan Bhattacharya, Sanja Badanjak, Christine Bell, Fiona Knäussel, Laura Wise, John Allison, Benjamin Bach In March 2020, the UN Secretary General issued a call for a global ceasefire to...

Local Peace Processes

Editors: Christine Bell, Jan Pospisil, Laura Wise. In recent years, the difficulties and failures of national level peace processes have prompted increased attention on ‘the local’ as a space...

Increasing the Representation of Women Peace Mediators: Collaborative Leadership Models...

Authors: Catherine Turner and Christine Bell This paper considers the under-representation of women in high-level mediation and peacemaking positions. Set in the context of successive normative commitments to increase...

Transitional Management: Comparative Guide to Tasks, Timing, Issues

About: This report brings together the Political Settlements Research Programme’s comparative research on transitional government and accompanying processes into a ‘Quick Guide’ on the management of negotiated transitional arrangements...

Accommodation of National Minorities Involved in Territorial Conflicts

The PA-X Spotlight Series addresses questions regarding comparative peace processes, asked by those seeking to influence peace and transition processes. Each Spotlight provides brief comparative material regarding a key...

Pandemic Pauses: Understanding Ceasefires in a Time of Covid-19

On 23 March 2020, the UN Secretary General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres called for an immediate global ceasefire, to help tackle the threat of Covid-19 rather than compound the risk...

Models for Women’s Inclusion in Track One Mediation in Peace and Transition Processes

Authors: Christine Bell and Catherine Turner This paper focuses on modalities for ensuring that women and gender advocates have direct access to ‘Track 1’ peace and transition process talks...

State Responses to Social Unrest: Pathways out of Crisis

This report provides a short introduction to inform thinking on how social crisis ends, and the types of initiatives that help to bring it to conclusion. It begins by...

An interactive tracker for ceasefires in the time of Covid-19

Authors: John Allison, Sanja Badanja, Benjamin Bach, Christine Bell, Devanjan Bhattacharya, Fiona Knaussel and Laura Wise Acknowledging the distinct health challenges of Covid-19 in conflict-affected states, the piece from...