• The State of Peacebuilding in Africa: Lessons Learned for Policymakers and Practitioners 

  McNamee, Terence; Muyangwa, Monde (Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2020-11)

  This open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences and lessons learned in peacebuilding in ...
• Safe Havens Amidst the Jihadist Storm: How Leaders Spare Some Regions from Terrorist Violence in the Sahel 

  Bere, Mathieu (Better Evidence Project, Carter School, George Mason University, 2022-01)

  This study identifies what has helped the people of Amataltal in Niger and Dori in Burkina Faso maintain a relatively satisfactory level of peace and security amidst the jihadist storm that has been sweeping across the ...
• Ceasefire Drafter’s Handbook: An Introduction and Template for Negotiators, Mediators, and Stakeholders 

  Unknown author (Public International Law & Policy Group, 2013-05)

  The Public International Law & Policy Group’s (PILPG) Ceasefire Drafter’s Handbook is a guide intended to effectively supplement the activities of negotiators and drafters of ceasefire agreements. This Handbook draws from ...
• Untangling Conflict: Local Peace Agreements in Contemporary Armed Violence 

  Pospisil, Jan; Wise, Laura; Bell, Christine (Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, 2020)

  This article seeks to understand the proliferation of local and sub-national peace agreements negotiated and signed in recent years. While such agreements are not a new phenomenon, local negotiations in violent conflict ...
• Civil Society in Conflict Transformation: Strengths and Limitations 

  Fischer, Martina (Berghof Foundation, 2011-01)

  This book chapter focuses on the potential contribution that civil society actors can make to peacebuilding. There is also an examination of what types of activities international and transnational NGOs undertake in order ...
• “Frameworkers” and “Circlers” – Exploring Assumptions in Impact Assessment 

  Neufeldt, Reina C. (Berghof Foundation, 2011-01)

  This chapter explores two contending constituencies and their arguments about why and how to identify impact in peacebuilding initiatives in practice. The two constituencies, “frameworkers” and “circlers”, involve sets of ...
• Transitional Justice and Reconciliation: Theory and Practice 

  Fischer, Martina (Berghof Foundation, 2011-01)

  This article explores the concept of transitional justice and its role in debates on democratization, nation-building and state reconstruction and its relation to reconciliation, both of which have become increasingly ...
• The Role of Development Aid in Conflict Transformation: Facilitating Empowerment Processes and Community Building 

  Bigdon, Christine; Korf, Benedikt (Berghof Foundation, 2004-08)

  This article examines both the theoretical assumptions and expectations, as well as the practical experiences, of empowerment approaches within the field of development aid, with a particular focus their potential for ...
• On Hybrid Political Orders and Emerging States: State Formation in the Context of ‘Fragility’ 

  Boege, Volker; Brown, Anne; Clements, Kevin; Nolan, Anna (Berghof Foundation, 2008-10)

  This article examines the rationale and underlying assumptions of the mainstream discourse on fragile states. The authors argue that the conventional perception of so-called fragile states as an obstacle to the maintenance ...
• Fresh Insights on the Quantity and Quality of Women's Inclusion in Peace Processes 

  Paffenholz, Thania; Prentice, Antonia Potter; Buchanan, Cate (Crisis Management Initiative and The Graduate Institute Geneva, 2015-05)

  This policy brief resulted from a meeting of policy analysts, practitioners, and academic involved in the women, peace and security agenda to review, analyze and frame key findings from research related to women's participation ...
• Evaluating Peacebuilding Activities in Settings of Conflict and Fragility: Improving Learning for Results 

  OECD (OECD Publishing, 2012)

  Evaluating Peacebuilding Activities in Settings of Conflict and Fragility was developed by the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) to help improve program design and management and strengthen the use of evaluation ...
• Opting Out of War: Strategies to Prevent Violent Conflict 

  Anderson, Mary B.; Wallace, Marshall (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012)

  This book reports stories of existing capacities and resilience on the part of multiple communities—some quite sizable and significant—that manage to prevent violent conflict when all the incentives that surround them are ...
• Preventing A Conflict Relapse In West Africa With Legal Prosecutions 

  Short, Elliot (2020)

  By removing powerful figures with a history of employing violence and armed conflict from the political environment, establishing a historical record of events leading up to and during the war, and bringing the perpetrators ...
• Preventing A Conflict Relapse In Timor-Leste 

  Short, Elliot (2020)

  A transitional international administration and a peacekeeping mission helped to prevent a conflict relapse in Timor-Leste and laid the foundations for an accountable state governed by a constitution and an elected government ...
• Preventing A Conflict Relapse In South Sudan 

  Short, Elliot (2021)

  The IGAD has successfully prevented a conflict relapse in South Sudan by employing a range of monitoring mechanisms and facilitating ongoing dialogue between former belligerents.
• Preventing A Conflict Relapse In Sierra Leone 

  Short, Elliot (2020)

  The United Nations Mission to Sierra Leone disarmed over 70,000 combatants, oversaw a peaceful election, and helped to strengthen the Sierra Leonean state, preventing a conflict relapse.
• Preventing A Conflict Relapse In Papua New Guinea (Bougainville) 

  Short, Elliot (2020)

  A series of international peacekeeping missions helped to ensure Bougainville did not relapse into conflict and created a stable and secure environment for the new administration to govern the region.
• Preventing A Conflict Relapse In Nepal 

  Short, Elliot (2020)

  The United Nations Mission in Nepal worked with local people and organisations to ensure that the peace process stayed on track while facilitating the Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration and military integration ...
• Preventing A Conflict Relapse In Mozambique (1992 – 1994) 

  Short, Elliot (2020)

  The United Nations Operations in Mozambique helped to maintain peace and stability in extremely adverse conditions in post-war Mozambique.
• Preventing A Conflict Relapse In Mozambique (2013 – 2018) 

  Short, Elliot (2020)

  Talks mediated by the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and the Government of Switzerland helped to prevent a conflict relapse in Mozambique more than two decades after the devastating civil war there had ended.

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