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‘It’s law Jim, but not as we know it’: the public law techniques of ungovernance

Ungovernance involves circumnavigating disagreement over the nature and purposes of government itself. Ungovernance, despite its name, does not imply a lack of governance and therefore a lack of law,...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Peace and Transition Processes: Tracking the Trends

This report is part of a body of work and a set of connected research projects on Covid-19, peace, and conflict. This research used expert surveys on a set...

International Law and Transitional Governance: Critical Perspectives

This volume examines the role of international law in shaping and regulating transitional contexts, including the institutions, policies, and procedures that have been developed to steer constitutional regime changes...

Constituting Transitions: Predicting Unpredictability

This chapter is part of International Law and Transitional Governance: Critical Perspectives, which examines the role of international law in shaping and regulating transitional contexts, including the institutions, policies,...

Radical disagreement and self-determination disputes

Self-determination disputes are difficult to resolve because there is no way to reconcile a desire for secession with a desire to preserve the state’s unity. This is why the...

How Peace Agreements Provide for Implementation

Peace negotiations capture national and international attention at the ‘handshake moment’. Yet, even while a peace agreement is being celebrated, often people living in the country concerned ask themselves...

Local Peace Processes: Opportunities and Challenges for Women’s Engagement

This Spotlight addresses the questions: When and how do local peace processes and agreements address conflict? What are the opportunities and challenges for women and gender-equality advocates seeking to...

Re-invigorating Stalled Peace Negotiations: Challenges and Opportunities for Women’s...

This Spotlight addresses the questions: When formal peace negotiations stall or break down, how do international mediators and other diplomatic efforts attempt to reinvigorate them? What challenges and opportunities...

Women and the Renegotiation of Transitional Governance Arrangements

This Spotlight addresses the questions: When negotiated transitions have failed to move forward, how have attempts to reconfigure them been used to include provisions relating to participation of women...

Gender Mainstreaming in Ceasefires: Comparative Data and Examples

This Spotlight addresses the questions: When and how have ceasefire agreements in armed conflict addressed women? Why should ceasefires include gender-specific provisions? Finally, what are the potential strategies for...

Introducing PA-X: A new peace agreement database and dataset

Authors: Christine Bell and Sanja Badanjak This article introduces PA-X, a peace agreement database designed to improve understanding of negotiated pathways out of conflict. PA-X enables scholars, mediators, conflict...

Principled Pragmatism and the ‘Inclusion Project’: Implementing a Gender Perspective...

This article uses a mixed qualitative and quantitative analysis to consider when and how peace agreements have adopted a gender perspective, using a new PA-X peace agreement database to...