Monitoring and implementing peace agreements

Implementing the 1999 Nairobi Agreement (2002)

Protracted conflict, elusive peace: Initiatives to end the violence in northern Uganda
Dec 2002
Patrick Oguru Otto describes the attempts to implement the December 1999 Nairobi agreement between the governments of Uganda and Sudan, detailing the problems faced and the gradual erosion of hopes for a peaceful resolution.

Reaching the 1985 Nairobi Agreement (2002)

Protracted conflict, elusive peace: Initiatives to end the violence in northern Uganda
Dec 2010
Bethuel Kiplagat reviews the structure, agenda and failings of the Kenyan-mediated talks that led to the unsuccessful Nairobi peace agreement of December 1985 between the military government of Uganda and the NRM/A.

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.

The politics of transition (1999)

Compromising on autonomy: Mindanao in transition
Apr 1999
Eric Gutierrez describes the failure of the transition structures created for Mindanao following the 1996 peace agreement (such as the MNLF-run Southern Philippines Council for Peace and Development).

A critical partnership: Civil society and the peace process (1999)

Compromising on autonomy: Mindanao in transition
Apr 1999
Rufa Cagoco-Guiam explores civil society’s relationship to the peace process, which, although characterised by exclusion from the negotiating table and post-agreement development mechanisms, contains the potential for civil society to be at the forefront of building a culture of peace.

Sustaining the constituency for Moro autonomy (1999)

Compromising on autonomy: Mindanao in transition
Apr 1999
Macapado A. Muslim discusses how the momentum of the 1996 peace agreement can be sustained, warning that more progress must be made on development in Mindanao if willingness to accept autonomy is to remain strong.

Islamic diplomacy: Consultation and consensus (1999)

Compromising on autonomy: Mindanao in transition
Apr 1999
Sol Santos assesses the peacemaking role played by the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), whose approach combined conventional, Asian (particularly ASEAN) and Islamic influences.

Philippines–Mindanao

The 1996 Peace Agreement between the Republic of the Philippines government and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) was a milestone in many ways: all previous attempts to negotiate an end to 24 years of civil war had failed.

Implementation of the peace deal did not end the violence but the efforts and innovations in peacemaking in Mindanao offer invaluable examples for people working to resolve conflicts around the world.

Accord 6 contains analysis on Islamic diplomacy, civil society roles and development.

Compromising on autonomy: Mindanao in transition (1999)

Apr 1999

The 1996 Peace Agreement between the Republic of the Philippines government and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) was a milestone in many ways: all previous attempts to negotiate an end to 24 years of civil war had failed. Implementation of the peace deal did not end the violence but the efforts and innovations in peacemaking in Mindanao offer invaluable examples for people working to resolve conflicts around the world.

Accord issue 6, Compromising on autonomy: Mindanao in transition, contains analysis on Islamic diplomacy, civil society roles and development.

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