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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Peace Processes"”.
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Transnational Dynamics of Civil War Peace Processes
… pathways through which civil war actors find a peaceful solution to their long-standing armed conflict and the role that the transnational linkages, which rebel groups form with various state and non-state actors, play during different stages of peace processes. The thesis explains how rebel …
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Why Peace Processes Fail: A Conceptual Analysis of the Peace Talks between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), 2009-2015
… exploring the prospects and obstacles to peace processes. The case study is based on the failed peace process between the Republic of Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) during 2009-2015. It offers a conceptual analysis of the changes in interests, attitudes and relationships …
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Identity, Resilience and Social Justice: Peace-making in a Neoliberal Global Order
… and non-armed social actors to participate in peace processes – has emerged as the fundamental principle of peace process design. As external international peace mediation theoretically no longer seeks to dictate liberal peace outcomes, but merely aims to facilitate participatory processes of …
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THE INCLUSION OF WOMEN’S ISSUES IN PEACE NEGOTIATION AGREEMENTS: GUATEMALA, EL SALVADOR, AND COLOMBIA
… suffer sexual abuse and torture. However, most peace processes have been exclusively controlled and led by men, while women and women’s issues are usually not included in peace negotiations or resulting agreements. In the last 30 years, there have been 35 comprehensive peace accords signed …
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Mightier than the Sword: Peace Agreement Design and the Law
In the last 30 years, peace agreements have proliferated as conflict resolution instruments. Yet quantity has not reflected quality: peace agreements continue to collapse at an alarming rate, and civil wars terminated by negotiated settlement remain twice as likely to reignite. By examining the …
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Gender and Legitimacy in United Nations Mediation
… Resolution 1325, the foundation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda. It aims to make peace and security more gender-sensitive and inclusive. Scholars have examined the implementation of the WPS Agenda in peacebuilding and peacekeeping; however, mediation, particularly UN-brokered …
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Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus
… this end, maintaining an active role in ongoing peace processes, curbing Iranian influence in the region and supporting Georgia's NATO integration ought to be key U.S. foreign policy priorities in the South Caucasus.
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Inclusion and exclusion as problems of peace processess : the case of Burundi
… for all warring parties to be included in a peace process for it to be successful, has become conventional wisdom and orthodoxy. This study challenges the principles of all-inclusiveness by critically analysing problems related to issues of "inclusion" and "exclusion" of warring parties, as …
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Peacebuilding and Gender Inclusivity: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh
… seeks to demonstrate how women’s role in peacebuilding are pivotal and should not be trivialized. Women working with civil society organizations, human rights organizations, and photography collectives, have proven to take a more non-violent approach, and they are more successful at …
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Peace Negotiations and Remaking Political Community in Somalia
What is the relationship between processes of political community formation and peace-making in Somalia? Drawing primarily on original archival research, extensive interviews and personal memoirs, I trace the ways in which representation modalities in international peace negotiations, such as the …
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The public sphere and the construction of peace narratives in Angola : from the bicesse accords to the death of Savimbi
… sphere, and investigate their contribution to peace discourse. The five arenas are: the Angolan churches, private media, civil society organisations, community based material and traditional authority. The objective of this thesis is to highlight these discourses, and to investigate their …
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’n Studie van Josua 23 gefokus op sosiale waardes as sleutel tot die verstaan van oorlogsdenke
… values, can hold great value for contemporary peace processes. A large number of Old Testament passages can further be illuminated through a study of this nature. The problem can be summarised by the following question: ● Why did the ancient person positively regard war as an inevitable …
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Spoiling the Peace or Seeking the Spoils?: Civil War Outcomes and the Role of Spoilers
"One of the greatest threats to the peaceful resolution of civil wars comes from ""spoilers,"" leaders and factions who use violent or nonviolent strategies to alter the course and outcome of a peace process. Spoilers have successfully wrecked peace agreements in contexts as diverse as Rwanda, …
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Is international law a building or stumbling block to States' response to a legacy of massive atrocities? Reassessing the obligations to investigate and prosecute
Post-conflict situations, regime changes, and peace processes within situations of active hostility pose tremendous challenges for the governments and societies involved. The inherent dilemma between justice and the international obligations to investigate and prosecute a legacy of large-scale …
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Ethnic Violence on Kenya's Periphery: Informal Institutions and Local Resilience in Conflict-Affected Communities
… or stops and armed actors choose to preserve peace. The project draws upon qualitative data derived from semi-structured interviews, focus group dialogues, and participant observation of local peace processes during field research conducted in six conflict-affected counties in Northern …
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Getting to the table : explaining the incidence of mediation in the insurgencies of Indonesia
… domestic support, and international pressure for peaceful resolution. Domestic support is the pivotal factor with the military being the most decisive actor. Based on this argument, I develop a scenario-based framework in which states could possibly find themselves in and test it on the three …
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Looking at the intractability of the Israeli/Palestine conflict with a focus on the construction of identity
… explore the relationships between the different processes driving the conflict. Prominent authors investigating the nature of intractable conflicts seek to provide a theoretical understanding of conflict, with the aim of facilitating a deeper understanding of what allows these conflicts to …
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Rethinking terrorism in Mozambique: A critical analysis of the use of the terrorism term to describe the political violence in Cabo Delgado.
… of the conflict, obscuring or delaying peace processes, and the violation of human rights.This is a qualitative study that relies on primary and secondary resources obtained through desktop research and semi-structured interviews.
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Norvegijos nevyriausybinių organizacijų įtaka valstybės užsienio politikai /
… of Norwegian Track II diplomacy in international peace processes. Using the practice analysis method the main aim of this work is to find the right components of Norwegian model that helped to reach the compromise in Sudan, Sri Lanka, and Israel – Palestine cases. Track II diplomacy could be …
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Understanding peaceful and violent nation-building through leadership : a case study of South Sudan
Peace-building has reached a cross-roads. The high instance of conflict relapse in “post-conflict” societies has stimulated an examination of dominant peace-building thinking and practice. This research contributes to this thinking by examining nation-building in societies plagued by …
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