Georgian–Abkhaz

Incentives, sanctions and conditionality

Faced with the problem of how to respond to the challenges of intra-state armed conflict, international policymakers often turn to incentives, sanctions and conditionality in the hope that these tools can alter the conflict dynamics and influence the protagonists' behaviour.

But do such policy instruments underpin or undermine peace processes? How can they constructively influence conflict parties' engagement in peacemaking initiatives?

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Encouraging dialogue across a conflict divide

Esma who is Georgian and Anzhela from Abkhazia, travelled to London to take part in internships with Conciliation Resources and share their experiences as participants on the Young Dialogue project.

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Paix sans frontières: building peace across borders

Jan 2011

War does not respect political or territorial boundaries. This twenty-second Accord publication looks at how peacebuilding strategies and capacity can ‘think outside the state’: beyond it, through regional engagement, and below it, through cross-border community or trade networks. Edited by Alexander Ramsbotham and I William Zartman, Paix sans frontières: building peace across borders includes 20 case studies from Asia, Europe and the Caucasus, to East, Central and West Africa, Central America and the Middle East. Articles also explore cross-border peacebuilding from global, systems analysis and legal perspectives, and focus on themes ranging from politics, governance and security, social and community relations, and trade and natural resources.

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Communicating across borders: Peacebuilding and the media in the South Caucasus

Paix sans frontières: building peace across borders

Jan 2011

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In the South Caucasus’s state of ‘no peace, no war’, interlaced by closed borders, front lines, and abandoned roads and railways, Rachel Clogg and Jenny Norton discuss how the media has helped to reconnect people and rebuild ties.

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Cross-border peacebuilding

War does not respect political or territorial boundaries but forms part of regional conflict systems through dynamics that cross borders: refugee flows, nomadic armed groups like the LRA, narcotic or criminal networks, blood diamonds, or psycho-social ties.

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Christine Bell

Christine Bell is Director of the Centre for International and Comparative Human Rights Law, Queens University of Belfast and a member of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission set up under the Belfast Agreement. She is currently writing a book on peace agreements, human rights and international law.