• Gender Provisions in Peace Accords: Reflections on Negotiation, Design and Implementation in Support of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

    Online

    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. 

  • Africa Week 2020: The African Union’s Role in the Global Order

    Online

    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.

  • Finding Peace in Somalia – the Galkaio ‘local’ agreement

    Online

    Galkaio town represents a boundary on the ground and in the imagination within Somali society. The 1993 Peace Accord held a fragile peace for many years as political and developmental trajectories differed markedly on either side of this border town. This talk, hosted by the Conflict Research Programme, explores the 2016/17 peace agreement, in its local and national dimensions, and which occurred as part of the state-building project that is still ongoing in Somalia and offers insights on the quality of international intervention.