Incentives and sanctions in peace processes

Aaron Griffiths and Catherine Barnes (2008)

Aaron Griffiths and Catherine Barnes examine and analyse the policy instruments that can be harnessed as sanctions and incentives to support peacemaking. They place different policy instruments within a spectrum of different modes of influence, ranging from coercive measures, to measures aimed at encouraging change through offering incentives, to non-coercive and non-conditional measures to facilitate changes in the parties' relationships and mindsets. They discuss each set of measures in relation to their uses in peacemaking and suggest some determinants of their effectiveness.

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