Dealing with the past and transitional justice

West Africa: Liberia and Sierra Leone

As attention shifts towards longer-term development in Liberia and Sierra Leone, Accord 23 argues that peacebuilding should remain a priority. More needs to be done to repair and build relationships among communities, and between communities and the state; and to develop more participatory politics and society that includes marginalised groups.

Islam and Somali social order

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
This article discusses the rise of the Islamic Courts and the impact of Islamic militancy with which Somalis are currently grappling.

Islam and Somali social order

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
This article discusses the rise of the Islamic Courts and the impact of Islamic militancy with which Somalis are currently grappling.

Peace by piece: Addressing Sudan’s conflicts

Dec 2006
Accord Sudan: Cover image
Accord 18 focuses on Sudan and asks which issues were excluded from the process leading to the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. It suggests that future initiatives must be more inclusive and better coordinated.

Peace and reconciliation

From military peace to social justice? The Angolan peace process
Oct 2004
Arguing that meaningful reconciliation must be rooted in local social and cultural contexts, Carlinda Monteiro examines Angola’s mixture of religions and beliefs and how this can form the basis for addressing the issues of truth and reconciliation.

Sudan

The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) on 9 January 2005 was hailed by some as the dawn of a new era for Sudan. However, Sudan has a number of interlocking conflicts that cannot be fully addressed by a bilateral agreement. The CPA is just one part – if a very significant one – of a piecemeal approach to resolving Sudan's conflicts that has produced separate agreements for Darfur and eastern Sudan. It is unclear if these can fit together as the jigsaw pieces of a comprehensive peace – or what pieces are still missing.

International interventions in Côte d'Ivoire: In search of a point of leverage

Powers of persuasion: Incentives, sanctions and conditionality in peacemaking
Feb 2008
International interventions in Côte d'Ivoire
Mike McGovern argues that the threat of international prosecution or the use of UN sanctions have achieved a certain success in limiting the damage of the war Côte d'Ivoire, but attempts to engineer a political solution via a series of peace accords and coercive Security Council resolutions have largely failed.

Angola

Angola’s 26-year civil war ended in April 2002 with the signing of the Luena Memorandum of Understanding between the government and the Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Marking the end of the government’s campaign to achieve peace through war, the Luena Memorandum built on a series of previous failed peace agreements.

From military peace to social justice? The Angolan peace process

Oct 2004

From military peace to social justice? The Angolan peace process (Accord issue 15, 2004) asks ‘what next?’ for a nation that has secured a ‘military peace’ but still faces huge challenges in post-conflict peacebuilding and a secessionist war in Cabinda. It provides lessons from Angola’s history of conflict and peacemaking, and reviews past peace processes and the roles played by Angolan civil society, institutions such as the United Nations and foreign governments.

In search of a new model for conflict resolution

Alternatives to war: Colombia’s peace processes
Feb 2004
Daniel García-Peña explores two historical models of negotiations associated with Presidents Betancur and Barco and how they have been applied by other administrations. Learning from these experiences, he expounds features for a new negotiating model.

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