Women and gender

Kashmiri women across the divide: Kashmiri women mapping initiative

Aug 2010
Kashmiri women know that their role in peacebuilding is important. However, as this report by Ayesha Saeed for Conciliation Resources reveals, their perspectives on peace and conflict vary in different regions.

10 points on 10 years of UNSCR 1325 in Europe

Dec 2010
UN Security Council Resolution 1325 champions the contribution women make to peace and security. Civil society organisations explain in this paper how Europe can do more to implement it.

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.

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.

Dili declaration: A new vision for peacebuilding and statebuilding

Apr 2010
As fragile states face massive challenges in trying to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, representatives at the 2010 International Dialogue meeting in Dili make this declaration.

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.

Guatemala

The signing of peace agreements in 1996 ended 36 years of civil war between the Guatemalan government and the Marxist rebel army, the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unit. 

Negotiating rights: The Guatemala peace process

Nov 1997

The signing of peace agreements in 1996 ended 36 years of civil war between the Guatemalan government and the Marxist rebel army, Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unit. The peace process went beyond an arrangement between armed groups, allowing regional and civic actors to advance their concerns on issues of social justice, political power-sharing and the rule of law.

Bringing peace to Liberia

The Liberian peace process 1990-1996
Oct 1996
Max Ahmadu Sesay provides an in-depth analysis of the Liberian conflict and peace process, including an assessment of the difficulties faced in reaching workable accords.

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