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Peace agreements and persons with disability: mapping the relationship  

Peace agreements hold much promise for promoting the interests of persons with disability, but they can be equally destructive. For meaningful impact, provisions addressing disability are but an initial...

Principled Peacekeeping Works

Cedric de Coning examines the effectiveness of peacekeeping operations as implementation mechanisms in peace processes, and outlines the risks inherent in the shift toward UN stablization missions.

Strategies of inclusion in peacemaking: Beyond box-ticking and photo opportunities?

“Inclusion” is becoming an increasingly prominent term in debates about peace, yet the term often remains vague. Hearing calls for an inclusive peace process begs the questions: Whom are...

A New Approach or a Return to the Status Quo?

The Northern Ireland Assembly has reopened after a three-year collapse, but is this a new beginning? Dr Kevin McNicholl (PSRP Postdoctoral Fellow) examines the thorny issues at the heart...

Sudan’s Interim Constitutional Arrangement: The Risk of Sharing a Non-Existent Cake

Dr Jan Pospisil analyses Sudan's transitional power-sharing framework as the process of forming a government continues.

Interstate Agreements to End Intrastate Conflict  

Dr Kathryn Nash introduces her research on the role of interstate agreements in ending intrastate conflict, and asks when, where, how and why are these agreements used, and whether...

Peacebuilding through Technology: Crafting digital platforms to facilitate peace

Technological innovation – traditionally a key agent in the theatre of war – is now playing a vital role in imaginative efforts to advance peace. Leading-edge research that has reconciliation...

Data for Peace: Charting 30 years of human ingenuity in ending conflict

The road to peace is long and arduous, paved with pitfalls, but mapping how people have previously steered a path can inform ongoing quests for reconciliation. An initiative charting...

Gender Perspectives in Peace Processes

Those who work in refuges for women escaping from domestically violent men become accustomed to seeing certain injuries, like signs of strangulation, bitemarks, bruises, bald patches where hair has...