Resources

Paix sans frontières: building peace across borders

Jan 2011
War does not respect political or territorial boundaries. This twenty-second Accord publication looks at how peacebuilding strategies and capacity can ‘think outside the state’: beyond it, through regional engagement, and below it, through cross-border community or trade networks. Edited by Alexander Ramsbotham and I William Zartman, Paix sans frontières: building peace across borders includes 20 case studies from Asia, Europe and the Caucasus, to East, Central and West Africa, Central America and the Middle East. Articles also explore cross-border peacebuilding from global, systems analysis and legal perspectives, and focus on themes ranging from politics, governance and security, social and community relations, and trade and natural resources.

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.

Haciendo propio el proceso: La participación ciudadana en los procesos de paz

Jun 2004
Haciendo propio el proceso: La participación ciudadana en los procesos de paz

The process for making a transition from war to peace provides an opportunity to agree new political, constitutional and economic arrangements that can deal with the roots of a conflict. However such decisions are often made solely by governments and armed groups’ representatives, who do not always represent the wider public’s interests.

Suspending judgement: The politics of peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (2003)

The Northern Ireland peace process: A supplement to 'Striking a balance' (update 2003)
Apr 2003
Clem McCartney reviews the achievements of the implementation process and the doubts that persist, highlighting various weaknesses in the agreement that implementation has exposed, and reflecting on the prospects for the future.

Owning the process: Public participation in peacemaking

Dec 2002

The process for making a transition from war to peace provides an opportunity to agree new political, constitutional and economic arrangements that can deal with the roots of a conflict. However such decisions are often made solely by governments and armed groups’ representatives, who do not always represent the wider public’s interests.

Striking a balance: The Northern Ireland peace process (original Accord)

Dec 1999
The signing of the 1998 Belfast Agreement in Northern Ireland was the result of long and arduous negotiations to end 30 years of sectarian violence and political stalemate. Accord Issue 8 explores the factors that led to the negotiations and outlines the impact of history on current aspirations.

В поисках равновесия: мирный процесс в Северной Ирландии

Dec 1999

8-й выпуск публикации «Аккорд» “В поисках равновесия: мирный процесс в Северной Ирландии» содержит анализ факторов, которые привели к Белфастскому соглашению 1998 года, и показывает, как история влияет на сегодняшние устремления. Описывая создание необходимой для мира среды, авторы выпуска рассматривают комплексные глубинные факторы и аспекты соглашения, которые помогaли мирному процессу или, наоборот, вызывали проблемы с его осуществлением.

Haciendo balance: El proceso de paz de Irlanda del Norte

Dec 1999
Haciendo balance: El proceso de paz de Irlanda del Norte

El número 8 de la revista Accord, “Logrando un equilibrio: El proceso de paz en Irlanda del Norte”, explora los factores que llevaron al Acuerdo de Belfast (1988) y describe el impacto de la historia en las aspiraciones actuales. Al describir el desarrollo de un entorno de paz, se analizan las complejas fuerzas subyacentes y los aspectos del acuerdo que han ayudado al proceso o han causado problemas en su ejecución.

La publicación también contiene los textos completos de los principales acuerdos de paz, además de una cronología del conflicto y del proceso de paz.

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