Rethinking peace & transition processes in a changing conflict landscape
Seminars, discussions and more from PeaceRep consortium members.
Join us for this online seminar celebrating the launch of the new PeaceFem mobile app. Participants will discover the app and its functions and discuss peacemaking and technology as a tool for inclusivity.
Join the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) for a timely discussion on the challenges and strategies to pursuing effective ceasefires in conflict zones. Panelists will consider important factors and preparations that could impact the outcome, including whether timely international pressure would have made a difference in advancing the Secretary-General’s call.
In March 2020, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for a global ceasefire to help fight Covid-19. Six months on, has conflict really paused for the pandemic? Join us as we examine the effects of the Covid ceasefires, using data from our own Covid-19 Ceasefires Tracker.
This webinar brings together insights on the progress and challenges facing WPS aspects in peace accord negotiation, design, and implementation. Contributors will present data, research, and experience from policymaking over the past 20 years in an effort to sharpen the understanding of what efforts have an impact on the ground.
This talk, delivered by Dr Kathryn Nash from the Political Settlements Research Programme, will explore how the African Union has previously contributed to the global order and how it might help to shape transformations going forward.
This webinar will introduce the PA-X Peace Agreements Database and demonstrate its potential for exploring and interpreting 30 years of peace agreements from around the world.
How and why are amnesties used in response to conflict, and how can choices within amnesty design complement inclusive peacebuilding?
This webinar will offer a glimpse into the processes and outcomes of local peace processes, featuring data from the PA-X Local Peace Agreements Database.
Catherine O'Rourke discusses her new book in which she examines the various legal regimes regulating women's rights in conflict. She will be joined in conversation by Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins, new Senior Fellow in Global Policy at the Humphrey School.
This introductory event will draw on PSRP’s work and partnership to offer key insights and learnings from the PeaceTech team at the University of Edinburgh, including:
What is PeaceTech? How can technology help facilitate inclusive peace, and what is the new potential regarding data analysis?
Data on peace processes: What are the new possibilities for data collection, analysis, and connectivity: what can we do with data on peace and conflict now that we couldn’t do 10 years ago?
What types of interdisciplinary and research-practice-tech teams are needed to produce effective PeaceTech projects?
What lessons have we learned about designing an effective collaborative PeaceTech project in the ‘data’ space?
The session will highlight lessons learned from previous peace processes in Sudan, as well as the implications of those lessons on the ongoing process (including the Juba Peace Agreement and beyond).
This event will offer insights into how Covid-19 is affecting peace and conflict trends in the Middle East, particularly around issues of trust and social cohesion and how local actors are shaping the response to the pandemic.
A panel discussion on the Law and Politics of the Coup D’Etat in Myanmar, hosted by International IDEA and Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law.
Jointly held by al-Sabah Programme, Gulf Studies Center, Political Settlements Research Programme and Open Think
Tank, this event will examine regional responses to Covid-19 in the Middle East and Africa, and explore whether Covid-19 is a tool of conflict or opportunity for rapprochement.
This event will explore the concept of ungovernance in peacebuilding and transitional justice: how un-governance works, what it is good for, its potential downsides, and its implications for programs of institutional change.
A panel discussion on the historical context of the crisis in Myanmar, co-hosted with the Keith Forum on Commonwealth Constitutionalism.
This webinar will examine the relationship between power-sharing and inclusion of non-dominant groups, and will use PA-X data to demonstrate how peace agreements provide for above-average inclusion of women, girls, and gender.
Join PSRP for a roundtable discussion on women's rights in armed conflict under international law, celebrating the launch of a new book by Catherine O'Rourke.
Join us as we explore various aspects of interim transitional arrangements – focusing on the role of international actors, in supporting them and sustaining them.
The Conflict Resolution Program at Georgetown University is proud to host a discussion of Dr. Kathryn Nash's newly published African Peace: Regional norms from the Organization of African Unity to the African Union (Manchester University Press 2021). The talk will be moderated by Dr. Lise Howard.
Dr. Devanjan Bhattacharya will give a talk with LN-TECHINFO on Expanding Prospects of IT in India and Abroad.
The Decolonisation Group invites you to the book launch for Visions of African Unity, as edited by Frank Gerits and Matteo Grilli.
African regional organizations have played leading roles in constructing collective conflict management rules for the continent, but these rules or norms have not been static. Currently, the African Union (AU) deploys monitors, authorizes peace support operations, and actively engages to resolve internal conflicts. Just a few decades ago, these actions would have been deeply controversial under the Organization of African Unity (OAU). What changed to allow for this transformation in the way the African regional organization approaches peace and security?
This event will reflect on how civil society can best contribute to conflict management in the world's most fragile and conflict-affected settings, despite (or thanks to) an ongoing pandemic.
Join us to celebrate the launch of 'The Humanitarian Civilian: How the Idea of Distinction Circulates Within and Beyond International Humanitarian Law' by Dr Rebecca Sutton
Emergency law responses to Covid-19 have affected peace and transition processes in predictable and unpredictable ways, and this session looks at the consequences for levels of violent conflict and democratic consolidation. The discussion will be around the results of practice-based research with opportunities for the audience to participate with questions and interactive tools. Featuring the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law, International IDEA, and the Political Settlements Research Programme at the University of Edinburgh.
Conciliation Resources and the Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP) in conjunction with the Mediation Support Network are hosting an online event to support the launch of our new Accord Spotlight publication, ‘Ceasefire Monitoring: Developments and Complexities’.