Monitoring and implementing peace agreements

Trying times: Constitutional attempts to resolve armed conflict in Sri Lanka

Demanding sacrifice: War and negotiation in Sri Lanka
Aug 1998
Rohan Edrisinha explores why a definitive solution to the ethnic problem remains elusive by giving a detailed account of why negotiations, devolution proposals and a draft constitution failed.

Straining consensus: Government strategies for war and peace in Sri Lanka 1994-98

Demanding sacrifice: War and negotiation in Sri Lanka
Aug 1998
Kumudini Samuel describes the Sri Lankan government’s strategies for war and peace, particularly how it has sought to address secessionist aspirations by devolving power while continuing it military campaign against LTTE.

Sri Lanka

Decades of war between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have resulted in hardship, insecurity and death for many thousands of civilians.

Accord 4 outlines the cycles of violent conflict that have blighted the country since 1983. It analyses negotiations and other peace initiatives that took place between 1993 and 1998 and summarises basic concerns that must be confronted if a future peace settlement is to be achieved.

Demanding sacrifice: War and negotiation in Sri Lanka

Aug 1998

Accord 4, Demanding sacrifice: War and negotiation in Sri Lanka, outlines the cycles of violent conflict that have Sri Lanka since 1983. It analyses negotiations and other peace initiatives that took place between 1993 and 1998 and summarises basic concerns that must be confronted if a future peace settlement is to be achieved.

The publication features background articles and analysis on government peace strategies, constitutional reform, and popular Buddhist and Tamil aspirations.

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.

Constitutional and legislative reform

Politics of compromise: The Tajikistan peace process
Apr 2001
Rahmatillo Zoir and Scott Newton examine the country’s constitutional and legislative reforms, reviewing the provisions of the agreement, the constitutional amendment of 1999 and the parliamentary elections of 2000.

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.

Politics of compromise: The Tajikistan peace process

Apr 2001

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. After more than three years of peace talks, a power-sharing agreement was signed in June 1997, establishing a joint Commission for National Reconciliation to oversee its implementation. By 2000, the Tajikistani government and the United Nations had declared the peace process a success.

Renegotiating the political settlement in war-to-peace transitions

Mar 2009
A conflict can also be an opportunity to make essential changes. Catherine Barnes of Conciliation Resources examines the importance of the political settlement in war-to-peace transitions.

Reframing citizenship: Indigenous rights, local power and the peace process in Guatemala

Negotiating rights: The Guatemala peace process
Nov 1997
Rachel Sieder describes how indigenous Mayan civil society groups secured protection for their social cultural and political rights and assesses the opportunities and weaknesses presented by the accords.

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