Empowering the Future: Enhancing Child Participation in Transitional Justice
This report examines the recognition of children as active participants in post-conflict truth and reconciliation processes.
Author: Molloy
Child Soldiers and Peace Agreements
Sean Molloy makes recommendations on how peace agreements can best address the issue of child soldiers, drawing on a new dataset of references to children in peace agreements.
Child Protection Provisions and Peace Agreements
Along with an overview of existing provisions on child protection in peace agreements, this report shares recommendations for how these provisions can be better constructed.
Emergency Law Responses to Covid-19 and the Impact on Peace and Transition Processes
The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic on 11 March 2020. This global health crisis demanded a quick, decisive and efficient response by governments to...
National Human Rights Institutions and Post-Conflict Settings: An Emerging Research...
The potential contributions that National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) can make in post-conflict settings has drawn increased attention from academics and practitioners alike. For some, NHRIs can assume positive...
Why do states ratify human rights treaties in transitioning societies?
From Northern Ireland to Sierra Leone, Bosnia-Herzegovina to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan to Nepal, the transition from war to peace has historically presented an opportunity for the...
Negotiating States of Emergency
Peace agreements, as documents produced to end conflict, often display levels of ingenuity and creativity, often in extraordinarily complex and uncertain contexts. Provisions on such issues including when, how,...
Exploring Potential Connections Between Peace Agreements and Human Rights Treaty...
This report examines the relationship between peace agreements and the ratification of international human rights treaties (IHRT). It seeks to identify when and how peace agreements contribute to the...
Peace Agreements and Persons with Disabilities
This report contributes to ongoing efforts to recognise and support those with disabilities during and after conflict by examining the extent to which peace agreements include provisions addressing them...
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...
Peace Agreements and Trust Funds
A ‘Trust Fund’ or ‘Multi Donor Trust Fund’ (MDTF) is a ‘multi-agency funding mechanism, designed to receive contributions from more than one donor (and often also the recipient government),...