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Powers of persuasion: Incentives, sanctions and conditionality in peacemaking

Feb 2008
Faced with the problem of how to respond to the challenges of intra-state armed conflict, international policymakers often turn to incentives, sanctions and conditionality in the hope that these tools can alter the conflict dynamics and influence the protagonists' behaviour. Drawing on case studies from around the world, Accord issue 19 suggests that while these instruments have in some cases helped tip the balance towards settlement, in many others they been ineffective, incoherent or subsumed into the dynamics of the conflict.

International isolation and pressure for change in South Africa

Powers of persuasion: Incentives, sanctions and conditionality in peacemaking
Feb 2008
Accord Incentives: International isolation and pressure for change in South Africa
Catherine Barnes reviews the economic, financial and cultural sanctions imposed on South Africa between the 1960s to the 1990s and assesses the degree to which they played a useful in influencing an eventual transition.

Internal and external pressure to negotiate in South Africa: An interview with Roelf Meyer

Powers of persuasion: Incentives, sanctions and conditionality in peacemaking
Feb 2008
Accord Incentives: Internal and external pressure to negotiate
Former National Party chief negotiator Roelf Meyer discusses how the build-up of a combination of external and internal pressure brought the conditions for change in South Africa, but how the evolving relationship between the parties became more important once negotiations began in 1990.

South Africa’s negotiated transition: Context, analysis and evaluation

Owning the process: Public participation in peacemaking.
Dec 2002
Eldred De Klerk outlines the context, circumstances and the role of mass participation in the end of apartheid that, he argues, created a sense of legitimacy and public ownership of the process and fostered a culture of cooperation and compromise.

South Africa’s National Peace Accord: Its structures and functions

Owning the process: Public participation in peacemaking
Dec 2002
The National Peace Accord (NPA) was critical in reducing the violence during the negotiation process in South Africa. Chris Spies describes how it worked by drawing on volunteers to monitor the behaviour of its signatories and address local conflict mediation.

South Africa’s multi-party constitutional negotiation process

Owning the process: Public participation in peacemaking
Dec 2002
The South African people participated indirectly in negotiations on the transition through mass political parties. This article analyses the negotiations’ structures and mechanisms, examining how these processes balanced the power of the larger parties with the need for an inclusive process.

South Africa key texts: Accord Public participation

Owning the process: Public participation in peacemaking
Dec 2002

Public participation and international peacemaking

Owning the process: Public participation in peacemaking
Dec 2002
Marrack Goulding analyses public participation in four phases of peacemaking: overture, negotiation, implementation and peacebuilding, arguing that it becomes critical in the second two phases in which a sense of public ownership and support for the process is crucial.

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