Dealing with the past and transitional justice

Lome is dead! Long live Lome!

Aug 2000
Even after the terrible events of May 2000, Dr Dennis Bright, Commissioner at the Commission for the Consolidation of Peace in Sierra Leone, explains why the Lome peace agreement is not 'dead'.

A path to peace: Indigenous conflict transformation and peacebuilding in southern Sierra Leone

Apr 2004
The peace monitors system in Sierra Leone is an excellent example of local initiatives producing their own successful solutions. This article by Mariama Conteh explains how Conciliation Resources supports such efforts.

Report: Dialogue series no. 1: Christine Bell

Apr 2011
Professor Bell discussed constitutional reform, human rights and women's participation in peace processes with peace panels, lawmakers, academics, embassies and civil society. This report by Conciliation Resources summarises the key messages from her discussions.

Searching for solutions in Juba: An overview (2010)

Initiatives to end the violence in northern Uganda: 2002-09 and the Juba peace process
Apr 2010

Peace and conflict in northern Uganda 2002-06 (2010)

Initiatives to end the violence in northern Uganda: 2002-09 and the Juba peace process
Apr 2010

Reconciliation and justice: ‘Mato oput’ and the Amnesty Act (2002)

Protracted conflict, elusive peace: Initiatives to end the violence in northern Uganda
Dec 2002
Barney Afako examines issues of reconciliation and justice in northern Uganda, looking at the impact of the Amnesty Act of 1998 as well as more traditional approaches, such as mato oput – a clan or family-centred reconciliation practice.

Northern Uganda

Since the mid-1980s, the civil war between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has caused great suffering to the people of Acholiland in northern Uganda. Marked by child-abductions and widespread forced displacement, it has become linked to larger geopolitical interests – particularly the conflict in Southern Sudan. A meaningful peace process remains elusive.

Protracted conflict, elusive peace: Initiatives to end the violence in northern Uganda (original Accord)

May 2002
Since the mid-1980s, the civil war between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has caused great suffering to the people of Acholiland in northern Uganda. Accord issue 11 documents the history of peacemaking initiatives by local officials, elders and the international community in efforts to resolve this conflict.

Civil society and peacebuilding

Politics of compromise: The Tajikistan peace process
Apr 2001
Parviz Mullojanov surveys Tajikistan’s civil society and the challenges it has faced in influencing peacemaking.

Tajikistan

Conflict in Tajikistan began to escalate during the break-up of the Soviet Union. By 1992 this Central Asian republic was engulfed in civil war. Different interest groups fought for control of the state and the principles that would guide it: secular or Islamic; democratic or authoritarian.

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