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.

ABRA workshop on engagement of armed groups in peace processes

Sep 2005
These notes outline the questions that were asked at a workshop to discuss the engagement of armed groups in peace processes and provide a brief overview of each of the topics discussed.

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.

Demanding sacrifice: War and negotiation in Sri Lanka

Aug 1998

Accord 4, Demanding sacrifice: War and negotiation in Sri Lanka, outlines the cycles of violent conflict that have Sri Lanka since 1983. It analyses negotiations and other peace initiatives that took place between 1993 and 1998 and summarises basic concerns that must be confronted if a future peace settlement is to be achieved.

The publication features background articles and analysis on government peace strategies, constitutional reform, and popular Buddhist and Tamil aspirations.

Straining consensus: Government strategies for war and peace in Sri Lanka 1994-98

Demanding sacrifice: War and negotiation in Sri Lanka
Aug 1998
Kumudini Samuel describes the Sri Lankan government’s strategies for war and peace, particularly how it has sought to address secessionist aspirations by devolving power while continuing it military campaign against LTTE.

Trying times: Constitutional attempts to resolve armed conflict in Sri Lanka

Demanding sacrifice: War and negotiation in Sri Lanka
Aug 1998
Rohan Edrisinha explores why a definitive solution to the ethnic problem remains elusive by giving a detailed account of why negotiations, devolution proposals and a draft constitution failed.

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