Accord: resources for international peacemaking

Our acclaimed publication series, Accord: an international review of peace initiatives is a unique record of peacemaking experiences around the world.

What does the series include?

We work closely with local organizations in countries to produce each publication. These include detailed narrative and analysis on different peace processes and themes such as public participation in peacemaking and engaging armed groups in peace processes.

Each edition looks at the experiences and reflections of people with first-hand or expert knowledge of peace processes and analyses the issues from a practitioner’s viewpoint. They also contain:

• full texts and summaries of peace agreements
• profiles of the main individuals and organizations involved
• a glossary of important terms
• maps
• a chronology of the conflict and peace process
• guidance for further reading

Why is it needed?

The Accord series was inspired in 1995 by a team of negotiators involved in a peace process who were keen to discuss experiences from other conflict situations with us. Such documentation or analysis was extremely limited but they recognized that practice from elsewhere would help them develop a workable negotiation strategy. This confirmed our belief that information on peace processes needed to be publicly available. Today, Accord is a leading resource on peace processes. It offers cautionary tales about the practical challenges of peacemaking and gives examples of innovation and successful practice. It aims to inspire new thinking about the possibilities of dialogue and negotiation.

Who is it for?

Accord’s global readership has grown steadily. It includes high-level political decision makers, academics, peace practitioners, civil society groups, policymakers, armed groups and international institutions such as the United Nations and the European Commission.

How is it used?

Accord is used as a peacemaking resource in many different countries. In the Philippines and Colombia, for example, our partners use it in a comparative learning project that explores the relevance of examples from elsewhere for peacemaking activities in each country.

We also receive regular requests from governments and civil society groups to discuss the issues and analysis arising from each publication.

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