Events

Seminars, discussions and more from PeaceRep consortium members.

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Key Findings

Read our key findings across research topics related to fragmentation, peace processes, geopolitics, and PeaceTech.

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Ceasefires

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Read our key findings on ceasefires, including scope and modalities, monitoring, inclusion and gender, and more.

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Constitution-building

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Key findings on how constitution-building and peace processes intertwine, from negotiations to drafting and implementation.

TOPSHOT - A presiding officer counts records from the Ikorodu local government area during the collation of the presidential election results at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters in Yaba, in the suburbs of Lagos, in Nigeria, on February 26, 2023. - Nearly 90 million were eligible to vote on February 25, 2023, for a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari, with many hoping a new leader would do a better job tackling insecurity, economic malaise and growing poverty. (Photo by Benson Ibeabuchi / AFP) (Photo by BENSON IBEABUCHI/AFP via Getty Images)

Elections

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Key findings on the opportunities and risks posed by post-conflict elections and referendums

SANA'A, YEMEN- MAY 25: Medics in protective suits stand to check the body temperature of people in their vehicles at a street as preventive measures amid fears from the spread of COVID-19 on May 25, 2020 in Sana'a, Yemen.In Yemen, the war-ravaged country has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis, and announced the first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic on 10 April 2020 in Hadhramaut. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

Emergency Legislation

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Conflict and peacemaking can influence the declaration or ending of states of emergency.

Environment & Climate

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Relevance of climate change and other environmental issues is increasing in peace processes and conflict settings.

Sudanese women from the eastern Beja region walk on the main road of Port Sudan, 120 km west of the port, on October 5, 2021 as an act of protest against sections regarding the eastern region of Sudan in the Juba Peace Agreement, signed between rebel groups and the government in October last year. - When Sudan signed a historic peace deal last year, it was hoped it would end decades of war in the west and south -- but instead it sparked unrest in the east. Some in the gold-rich but impoverished east felt the October 2020 deal with a coalition of rebels, from the western Darfur region and two southern states, had left them out. (Photo by ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP) (Photo by ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP via Getty Images)

Women & Gender

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When and how women and sexual and gender minorities navigate and engage with the components of peace processes.

A displaced Syrian woman carries a box distributed by humanitarian aid workers at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp of al-Hol in al-Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria on February 7, 2019. (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP) (Photo credit should read FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Human Rights

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Human rights are often at the heart of conflict and peace, and the attempts to transition from one to the other.

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - FEBURARY 13: Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, speaks during the opening ceremony of the second round of peace talks between Colombian government and National Liberation Army (ELN) at the facilities of the Inter-American Social Security Conference in Mexico City, Mexico on February 13, 2023. (Photo by Daniel Cardenas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Implementation

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Read our key findings on how implementation affects the quality and robustness of a peace agreement's sustainability.

BUCHA, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 22: A view of modular town built for those who lost their houses due to ongoing Russia-Ukraine war on February 22, 2023 in Bucha, Ukraine. 1,735 housing facilities damaged during the war in Bucha. (Photo by Ignacio Marin Fernandez/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Interim Transitions

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Read our key findings so far on transitional arrangements, bridging the transition from conflict to peace. 

A. Amhimmid Mohamed Alamami, second from left, head of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces delegation, and Ahmed Ali Abushahma, head of the Government of National Accord military delegation, shake hands next to U.N. Libya envoy Stephanie Williams, center, on Oct. 23 in Geneva. (Violaine Martin/United Nations/AFP/Getty Images) (Violaine Martin/Un Photo Handout/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

Peace Processes

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Peace processes are structured attempts to resolve radical disagreement between conflict parties.

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PeaceTech

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Covers innovations in data, research and data collaboration, including feedback to data owners and social change agents in the field.

People from the Somali Regional State in Ethiopia gather at a conference organised by the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) in April 2019. © Conciliation Resources

Power-sharing

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Political, economic, military, and territorial power-sharing can support an end to conflict.

LUGHAYA, SOMALILAND - NOVEMBER 21: Refugees somali huts in the desert, Awdal region, Lughaya, Somaliland on November 21, 2011 in Lughaya, Somaliland. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art In All Of Us/Corbis via Getty Images)

Refugees & Displacement

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Displacement is a common consequence of conflict, and can expose difficult choices that go to the heart of the conflict.

Taiwanese naval officers on a military vessel during a Readiness Enhancement Drill, amid escalating Taiwan-China tensions, in Taiwan, January 2022. The US on 7 February 2022 approved another arms sales of 100 million to strengthen Taiwans military missiles system and defense capability, amid escalating military threats from China. (Photo by Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Security

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Security is a core issue in negotiating peace, encompassing several different concerns.

Child at a monument decorated with candles during a commemoration ceremony in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2019. (Photo by Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Transitional Justice

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Mechanisms to deal with past conflicts, including amnesties, constitution-making, gender, and victim support.

A general view of the skyline of the capital Sana'a on March 01, 2021 in Sana'a, Yemen. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

Trust Funds

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Peace agreements can influence the creation and development of trust funds.