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.

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.

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.

Incentives, sanctions and conditionality in peacemaking: Policy brief

Feb 2008
Accord Incentives: Policy brief cover image
This policy brief complements Conciliation Resources’ Accord (issue 19), 'Powers of persuasion: Incentives, sanctions and conditionality in peacemaking'. It provides analysis and advice on the best way to use such tools constructively.

Public seminar on engagement of armed groups in peace processes

Sep 2005
In this presentation by Clem McCartney at the Public Seminar on Engagement of Armed Groups in Peace Processes, he looks at the experiences of civil society in their engagement with armed groups.

Presentation by Celia McKeon at the Public Forum on Armed Groups in Peace Processes

Sep 2005
In these notes from a presentation by Celia McKeon, she emphasises the importance and value of civil society engagement with armed groups.

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