Human rights and international humanitarian law

An assessment of the Belfast Agreement (1999)

Striking a balance: The Northern Ireland peace process
Dec 1999
Dermot Nesbitt assesses the Belfast Agreement as a significant attempt to deal with issues that affect all situations of intergroup conflict, ranging from the problem of conflicting national identities to sequencing and fulfilling commitments made.

Striking a balance: The Northern Ireland peace process (original Accord)

Dec 1999
The signing of the 1998 Belfast Agreement in Northern Ireland was the result of long and arduous negotiations to end 30 years of sectarian violence and political stalemate. Accord Issue 8 explores the factors that led to the negotiations and outlines the impact of history on current aspirations.

Northern Ireland

The signing of the 1998 Belfast Agreement in Northern Ireland was the result of long and arduous negotiations to end 30 years of sectarian violence and political stalemate.

Agents for change: The roles of women in Aceh's peace process

Reconfiguring politics: The Indonesia-Aceh peace process
Sep 2008
Suraiya Kamaruzzaman describes women’s roles as advocates and architects of peace in Aceh and their simultaneous exclusion from formal aspects of the peace process. She argues this must change if the peace process is to have sustainable political traction.

Human rights and justice in Aceh: The long and winding road

Reconfiguring politics: The Indonesia-Aceh peace process
Sep 2008
Faisal Hadi describes the obstacles to redressing wartime human rights violations, including recent backtracking over the Human Rights Court's retrospective jurisdiction to consider cases that occurred during the war.

Peace through human rights

Nov 2008
Although it is difficult to see at first glance, human rights issues may be the key to bringing the parties in the Mindanao peace process closer together. Kristian Herbolzheimer of Conciliation Resources explains how in this article.

Cross-border conflict and international law

Paix sans frontières: building peace across borders
Jan 2011

Geoff Gilbert and Clara Sandoval explore some of the international legal challenges presented by the cross-border impact of conflict, especially pertaining to the international law of armed conflict, international human rights law, international criminal law, the law relating to the protection of internally and internationally displaced persons, and transitional justice.

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.

Papua New Guinea–Bougainville

The peace agreement signed in 2001 on the island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (PNG), ended the most violent conflict in the South Pacific since World War II. Triggered by disputes in the late-1960s between local landowners and the international proprietors of the world’s largest copper and gold mine, armed resistance in the 1980s met an abusive response from the PNG security forces.

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