Rethinking peace & transition processes in a changing conflict landscape
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The lessening likelihood and the often-sobering outcomes of comprehensive national peace processes directed attention to local peacemaking in recent years. Difficult to distinguish and define, local peace agreements work...
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...
The delivery of humanitarian aid remains one of the main challenges in contemporary armed conflict. The legal, political and physical construction of a sustained and respected humanitarian space, in...
Abstract: Resolving armed conflict by forging an inclusive political settlement is the contemporary paradigm of international peacebuilding. War-to-peace transitions are envisioned as a sequenced process, cumulating in a signed...
The lens of formalized political unsettlement asks for pathways in conflict transitions where the radical disagreement at the heart of the conflict cannot be resolved. It questions the idea...
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...
This memo argues that recurrent postponement of a definitive political settlement in South Sudan is a characteristic of a turbulent political marketplace, and that it serves the interests of...
This PA-X Spotlight report describes how the overthrow of Sudan's long-term military ruler Omar al-Bashir was triggered by a broad civil-society-based movement, supported by the Sudanese military in the...
Author: Jan Pospisil International peacebuilding has reached an impasse. Its lofty ambitions have resulted in at best middling success, punctuated by moments of outright failure. Paradoxically, contemporary peacebuilding policy...
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...
Building States while Building Peace? Statebuilding and Security Sector Reform in Peace Agreements Citation: Download PA-X report. Summary: This report uses ten variables coded in PA-X as proxies for the...
‘Unsharing’ Sovereignty: g7+ and the Politics of International Statebuilding Citation: Download the journal article in author’s final version or from the journal website. Policy points: Fragile states in the GlobalRead More
