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.

Standing united for peace: The EU in coordinated third-party support to peace processes

Dec 2010
How can the European Union best use its unique position to help end armed conflicts? Canan Gündüz of International Alert and Kristian Herbolzheimer of Conciliation Resources explain in this report.

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.

Introduction to the Georgia–Abkhazia case study

Powers of persuasion: Incentives, sanctions and conditionality in peacemaking
Feb 2008
Jonathan Cohen introduces the Georgia–Abkhazia case study by providing some historical context to the conflict and highlighting key aspects of the regime of sanctions on Abkhazia as experienced by the respective parties to the conflict.

The isolation of Abkhazia: A failed policy or an opportunity?

Powers of persuasion: Incentives, sanctions and conditionality in peacemaking
Feb 2008
Archil Gegeshidze explores the Georgian government's strategy of isolating Abkhazia and discusses the possible ways out of the current limbo.

Sanctions and the path away from peace

Powers of persuasion: Incentives, sanctions and conditionality in peacemaking
Feb 2008
In arguing that Georgia and other international actors have misjudged the consequences of the policy of isolating Abkhazia, Liana Kvarchelia describes the sanctions imposed, the effects of Russia's easing of restrictions, and the resulting changes in Abkhazian attitudes.

Bridging the gap: Improving UK support for peace processes – Working paper

Apr 2007
Catherine Barnes of Conciliation Resources analyses the UK's capacity to respond peacefully to conflicts overseas. Her observations are explained in this working paper.

The limits of leadership: Elites and societies in the Nagorny Karabakh peace process: Policy brief

Jan 2006
This policy paper summarises the findings from issue 17 in Conciliation Resources' Accord series, 'The limits of leadership: Elites and societies in the Nagorny Karabakh peace process'.

The Karabakh conflict and democratisation in Azerbaijan

The limits of leadership: Elites and societies in the Nagorny Karabakh peace process
Jan 2006
Rasim Musabayov describes the political crises that gripped newly independent Azerbaijan during the war and the relative stability that followed. He shows how political elites have sought to use public preoccupation with the Karabakh issue to their own advantage.

Пределы возможностей лидеров: концептуальная записка

Jan 2006
В данной записке суммируются выводы семнадцатого выпуска серии публикаций «РП» «Accord 17: Пределы возможностей лидеров: элиты и общества в нагорно-карабахском мирном процессе».

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