Resources

Conflict termination - Trends, challenges (new approaches?)

Apr 2011
Positive quantitative developments in peace processes need to be followed by increasing the quality of the peace agreements. This power point presentation by Conciliation Resources provide an overview of trends and challenges in conflict termination.

‘Joint Creation’: The Bougainville Peace Agreement - and beyond

Weaving consensus: The Papua New Guinea - Bougainville peace process
Sep 2010
Edward Wolfers traces the incremental series of step-by-step talks and agreements that laid the path for a compromise over the political status of Bougainville.

Protracted peace processes

Jul 2009
What is the best way to achieve peace and what can we learn from past efforts? This presentation given by Kristian Herbolzheimer of Conciliation Resources in Manila offers some advice.

Reconfiguring politics: The Indonesia-Aceh peace process

Reconfiguring politics: The Indonesia-Aceh peace process
Sep 2008
Reconfiguring politics: the Indonesia-Aceh peace process, edited by Aguswandi and Judith Large, analyses developments leading to the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in August 2005, and how this agreement has been put into practice.

The challenges of reintegration in Aceh

Reconfiguring politics: The Indonesia-Aceh peace process
Sep 2008
Lina Frödin highlights a number of problems with the reintegration process in Aceh relating to the precise function of assistance, the impact of post-tsunami reconstruction, and transitional justice.

Human rights and justice in Aceh: The long and winding road

Reconfiguring politics: The Indonesia-Aceh peace process
Sep 2008
Faisal Hadi describes the obstacles to redressing wartime human rights violations, including recent backtracking over the Human Rights Court's retrospective jurisdiction to consider cases that occurred during the war.

Agents for change: The roles of women in Aceh's peace process

Reconfiguring politics: The Indonesia-Aceh peace process
Sep 2008
Suraiya Kamaruzzaman describes women’s roles as advocates and architects of peace in Aceh and their simultaneous exclusion from formal aspects of the peace process. She argues this must change if the peace process is to have sustainable political traction.

Reconfiguring politics: The Indonesia-Aceh peace process (Indonesian)

Sep 2008
Reconfiguring politics: the Indonesia-Aceh peace process, edited by Aguswandi and Judith Large, analyses developments leading to the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in August 2005, and how this agreement has been put into practice.

Dilemmas of third-party involvement in peace processes: Reflections for practice and policy from Colombia and the Philippines

Nov 2006
Third parties experience great challenges when they try to help resolve conflicts. In this report, Clem McCartney of Conciliation Resources presents the discussions of Colombian and Filipino partners on the subject.

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.

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