Middle East

Dealing with Lebanon's past: remembering, reconciliation, art and activism

Positive peace for Lebanon: reconciliation, reform and resilience
Jul 2012
Sune Haugbølle reviews Lebanese efforts to pursue reconciliation and deal with the past. He explores issues of memory and remembering: Lebanon’s ‘state-sponsored amnesia’ over the war years; and the role of culture and of civil society in documenting and discussing them. Haugbolle considers options to integrate civil and national reconciliation initiatives and to involve political elites, as well as the potential of rural and traditional conflict resolution structures to engage grassroots in national reconciliation processes.

Whose Lebanon? A post-war history of people, power and peace initiatives

Positive peace for Lebanon: reconciliation, reform and resilience
Jul 2012
In this article, Accord 24 co-editors Alexander Ramsbotham and Elizabeth Picard offer a brief reflection on Lebanon's recent history. They outline the challenges facing a durable peace in Lebanon, including a lack of political reform, threats to Lebanese sovereignty, and an inegalitarian economic development.

Looking back to move forward in Lebanon

Lebanon’s model of post-war power sharing and liberal economic growth has been widely praised, but it has failed to deliver for most people. More than 20 years on from the Taif agreement that ended the civil war, Lebanon is not a post-conflict society. Our new Accord analysis – which comes as insecurity in Syria poses a renewed threat to Lebanon’s precarious stability – examines options for developing a more positive peace. An accompanying policy brief sets out priorities for change.

Introduction - Positive peace for Lebanon: reconciling society; reforming the state; realising sovereignty

Positive peace for Lebanon: reconciliation, reform and resilience
Jul 2012
Accord 24 co-editors Elizabeth Picard and Alexander Ramsbotham provide an introduction to the publication, offering a brief elaboration on the structure and principal themes of the publication, and introducing the focus of the publication's subsequent articles.

Policy brief – Reconciliation, reform and resilience: Positive peace for Lebanon

Jul 2012
A fundamentally different approach is needed to transform precarious stability in Lebanon into durable peace. Repeated outbreaks of political violence since the 1989 Taif Peace Accord show that Lebanon’s model of power sharing and liberal economic growth, while widely praised, has in reality failed to deliver a noticeable peace dividend. This 6-page policy brief summarises the findings of Accord 24 and sets out 10 priorities for change.

People's peacemaking perspectives: Lebanon – Policy brief

May 2012

The findings in this Policy Brief draw on perspectives and ideas from Lebanese and international actors and analysts, many of whom are engaged in Lebanese political or social life or in programmes supporting peacebuilding and development.

In search of respect at the table

Choosing to engage: Armed groups and peace processes
May 2005
Alastair Crooke describes Israel’s and the international community’s lack of responsiveness to various short ceasefires implemented by Palestinian Islamist groups in 2001-03, arguing that without a better understanding of these groups no end to the conflict is in sight.

Attempting to understand: An intermediary’s perspective: Terry Waite interview

Choosing to engage: Armed groups and peace processes
May 2005
Waite describes his attempts to understand and engage hostage-taking groups – especially Hizbollah-connected groups in Lebanon where he was himself taken captive.

Lebanon

This Accord publication reviews peacebuilding in Lebanon, to examine its effectiveness and opportunities and priorities for progress. It focuses on three main research themes for peacebuilding learning: reconciliation, reform and national self-determination.

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