Engaging armed groups: Further reading

Baker, Bruce. 'Separating the sheep from the goats among Africa's separatist movements' Terrorism and political violence, vol. 13, no. 1 (2001): 66-86
International Crisis Group. 'Myanmar backgrounder: ethnic minority politics' (Bangkok/Brussels: Asia Report No. 52, May 2003)
McCartney, Clem. 'Revolutionary and agreed change: managing the contradictions' .
Mowlam, Mo. Momentum (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002)
Policzer, Pablo. 'Neither terrorists nor freedom fighters' Paper presented at the International Studies Association Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 3-5 March 2005. See http://www.armedgroups.org/
Rees, Phil. Dining with terrorists: meetings with the world's most wanted militants (London: Macmillan, 2005)
Russell, John. 'Terrorists, bandits, spooks and thieves: Russian demonisation of the Chechens before and since 9/11' Third World Quarterly Vol. 26, No. 1 (March 2005): 101-116
Shultz, Richard H., Douglas Farah & Itamara Lochard. 'Armed groups: a tier-one security priority' (Colorado: USAF Institute for National Security Studies, Occasional Paper 57, September 2004)
Waite, Terry. Taken on Trust (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993)

Humanitarian & political engagement

Bradbury, Mark, Nicholas Leader & Kate Mackintosh. 'The 'Agreement on Ground Rules' in South Sudan' (London: Overseas Development Institute, Humanitarian Policy Group Report 4, 2000)
Bruderlein, Claude. 'The role of non-state actors in building human security: the case of armed groups in intra-state wars' (Geneva: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, May 2000)
Geneva Call. Seeking Rebel Accountability. Report of the Geneva Call mission to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in central Mindanao, Philippines. 3-8 April 2002. Monograph No.1, (Geneva: Geneva Call, August 2002)
De Waal, Alex. Food and power in Sudan (London: African Rights, 1997)
Hofmann, Claudia. 'Engaging non-state armed groups in humanitarian action: state actor and non-governmental approaches' (German Development Institute background paper, July-August 2004)
International Council on Human Rights Policy. Ends and means: human rights approaches to armed groups (International Council on Human Rights Policy, 2000)
Kay, Kira. 'The "new humanitarianism": the Henry Dunant Center and the Aceh peace negotiations' (Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, Case Studies in International Diplomacy: case study 02/03)
Levine, Iain. 'Promoting humanitarian principles: the southern Sudan approach' (London: Overseas Development Institute, Relief and Rehabilitation Network paper 21, 1997)
Mazurana, Dyan. Women in Armed Opposition Groups Speak on War, Protection and Obligations under International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law. Report of a workshop organized in Geneva by Geneva Call and the Program for the Study of International organization(s) August 26 – 29, 2004
Harmer, Adele & Joanna Macrae. 'Humanitarian action and the 'global war on terror': a review of trends and issues' (London: Overseas Development Institute, Humanitarian Policy Group Briefing No. 9, July 2003)
Harpviken, Kristain Berg & Bernt A. Skara. 'Humanitarian mine action and peacebuilding: exploring the relationship' Third World Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 5 (2003): 809-822
Policzer, Pablo. 'Human rights and armed groups: toward a new policy architecture'. Mimeo, July 2002
Santos, Soliman M. 'A critical reflection on the Geneva Call instrument and approach in engaging armed groups on humanitarian norms: a southern perspective' (Paper for the Armed Groups Conference, Vancouver, 13-15 November 2003)
Toole, Daniel. 'Humanitarian negotiation: observations from recent experience'. Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research.
Vanvoorhis, B. 'Food as a weapon for peace - Operation Lifeline Sudan' Africa Today, Vol. 36, no. 3-4 (1989): 29-42

Track one – track two interaction

Diamond, Louise & John McDonald. Multi-track diplomacy: a systems approach to peace (West Hartford, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 1996)
International Crisis Group. 'The Kivus: the forgotten crucible of the Congo conflict' (Nairobi/Brussels: Africa Report No. 56, January 2003)
Montville, Joseph V. 'The arrow and the olive branch: a case for track two diplomacy' in John McDonald & Diane Bendahmane (eds.), Conflict resolution: track two diplomacy (Washington, DC: Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, 1995)
Ricigliano, Robert. 'Networks of effective action: implementing an integrated approach to peacebuilding' Security dialogue Vol. 34 No. 4 (2003): 445-462
Saunders, Hal. 'The multilevel process in Tajikistan' in Herding cats: multiparty mediation in a complex world (Washington, DC: USIP, 1999)
Strimling, Andrea & Susan Allen Nan. 'Track I - Track II cooperation', an essay for Beyond Intractability, 2003: http://www.beyondintractability.org/m/track_1_2_cooperation.jsp

The impact of asymmetries

Balasingham, Anton. War and Peace: Armed Struggle and Peace Efforts of Liberation Tigers (London: Fairmax Publishing, 2004)
Bhatia Michael V. 'Fighting words: naming terrorists, bandits, rebels and other violent actors' Third World Quarterly Vol. 26, No. 1 (March 2005): 5-22
Cooke, Alastair & Vanessa Shields. 'The road ahead: perspectives on disarming Hamas'
International Crisis Group. 'Dealing with Hamas' (Amman/Brussels: ICG Middle East Briefing no. 21, January 2004)
Milton-Edwards, Beverley & Alastair Crooke. 'Waving, Not Drowning: Strategic Dimensions of Ceasefires and Islamic Movements' Security Dialogue, Vol. 35, No. 3 (2004): 295-310

General: armed groups and peace processes

Andreopoulos, George J. 'The International Legal Framework and Armed Groups' (Draft paper presented at the Conference on Curbing Human Rights Violations by Non-State Armed Groups, University of British Columbia, November 13-15, 2003)
Capie, David & Pablo Policzer. 'Keeping the promise of protection: holding armed groups to the same standard as states' Paper for United Nations and Global Security, United Nations Foundation
Fisher, Ronald J. 'Methods of third-party intervention' Berghof handbook for conflict transformation (Berlin: Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, 2001)
Franco, Andrés. 'Armed non-state actors' in David Malone (ed.) The UN Security Council (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2004)
Haysom, Nicholas & Julian Hottinger. 'Do's and Don'ts of sustainable ceasefire agreements'. Presentation to IGAD Sudan Peace Process Workshop on Detailed Security Arrangements in Sudan During the Transition
Kaldor, Mary. New and old wars: organized violence in a global era (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999)
Lederach, John Paul. 'Quo Vadis? Reframing terror from the perspective of conflict resolution' paper presented at University of California, Irvine, Townhall meeting, convened by Global Peace and Conflict Studies, 24 October, 2001.
Miall, Hugh, Oliver Ramsbotham & Tom Woodhouse. Contemporary Conflict Resolution (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999)
Peake, Gordon, Cathy Gormley-Heenan & Mari Fitzduff. From warlords to peacelords: local leadership capacity in peace processes (Londonderry: University of Ulster, INCORE Report, December 2004)
Stepanova, Ekaterina. 'Anti-terrorism and peacebuilding during and after conflict' (Stockholm: SIPRI Policy Paper no. 2, June 2003)
Williams, Sue & Steve Williams. Being in the middle by being at the edge (York: William Sessions Ltd, 1994)
Zartman, William. 'Dynamics and constraints in negotiations in internal conflicts' in William Zartman (ed.) Elusive peace: negotiating an end to civil wars (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995)
Zartman, William. 'Negotiating with Terrorists' International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Vol. 8, no. 3 (2003)

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