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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Peace agreements"”.
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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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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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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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Theoretical explanations for the Minsk II: Power, preferences, and interactions examined
Why do countries sign but not implement peace agreements? The Minsk II intended to solve the Ukrainian Crisis, but implementation has been slow and violations of the cease-fire occur routinely. I selected three theories to examine the Minsk II: realism, liberalism, and constructivism. I utilized …
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What Kind of Peace? Conflict Termination, Peacebuilding Strategies, and the Post-Civil Conflict Environment
Peace is often defined as the “absence of violence” which not only relegates it to the residual effect, but impacts how we understand the impact of different post-conflict elements. Though there is acknowledgment that conflicts terminate in different ways, very little is understood regarding the …
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The peace process: A case study
This thesis is a case study of the ongoing peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and the lack of impact that past agreements have made on the recent Oslo Accords. The thesis will attempt to show that past failures in 'land for peace' agreements between Israel and Arab countries …
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How Rivalries End: Understanding Dynamics of the Rivalry Termination Process
… follow the pattern of rivalry consolidation, peace agreement, and a post-agreement implementation process to successfully end their rivalry relationships. Therefore the necessary and sufficient conditions for rivalry termination must involve both rivalry peace agreements and a successful …
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Conflict resolution in post-conflict DRC, Rwanda and Sierra Leone : towards a synergy of the rights-based and interest-based approaches to conflict resolution
… of international norms cannot take part in peace agreements and must be held individually responsible for the atrocities they have committed. The approach considers justice as a prerequisite to peace. The interest-based approach frowns at the idea of laying blame on persons as being …
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An analysis of the challenges to the implementation of the revitalised agreement on the resolution of conflict in South Sudan from 2018 to 2022
South Sudan has signed many peace agreements to ensure law and order, peace, and freedom after many years of political unrest and conflict. The most recent and promising agreement, the Revitalised Agreement on Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS), signed in September 2018, has seen the …
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Peace agreement and conflict transformation: A study of the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord of Bangladesh
… framework through reviewing eight widely studied peace agreements and their following conflict transformation processes. This theme-based distinctive framework has guided us to conduct a comprehensive analyse of the CHT case. We argue that the 1997 CHT Accord, developed as a part of an internal …
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Espacio y violencia en la novela centroamericana del siglo XXI
… widespread violence despite the signing of the Peace Agreements during the 1990s. The existing conflict has inevitably influenced the literature of this region and this dissertation entitled Espacio y violencia en la novela centroamericana del siglo XXI, examines four Central American texts that …
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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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International norm echoing in rebel groups: The cases of the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
… such as during negotiations for ceasefire or peace agreements, and do so to boost their legitimacy. The research examines the effect of two additional variables on the changes in the discourse of the groups: the normative culture of the groups and the internal hierarchical structure. Findings …
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How Civil Wars End: The Influence of Rebel Groups
… why some civil conflicts terminate through peace agreements and military victories while others often fail to end decisively requires attention to strategic interactions between rebels and states, including how rebel groups mutate and shape competition to reach different conflict outcomes. …
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How Civil Wars End: The Influence of Rebel Groups
… why some civil conflicts terminate through peace agreements and military victories while others often fail to end decisively requires attention to strategic interactions between rebels and states, including how rebel groups mutate and shape competition to reach different conflict outcomes. …
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Post-conflict reconstruction in Angola
… to which these efforts have promoted durable peace in the country. The number of post-conflict countries on the continent is increasing, with 16 African countries already in the process of implementing peace agreements signed during the last decade. With research showing that up to 50 percent …
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In a Material World: Analyzing Religious Peacebuilding in Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina
<p>While intergroup peace is statistically far more common than is intergroup or inter-religious conflict, there has been a rise in recent years in conflict framed in religious terms. Peace and development practitioners have, in response, become increasingly interested in engaging religion, in …
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The African refugee crisis – challenging the notion of burden-sharing in Africa
… in a state of dealing with the conflicts through peace agreements. In addition to displacement as a result of conflict, African countries have complex issues that contribute to the rise in these numbers and these issues range from economic struggles, social security deficiencies, political …
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Organization and community : the determinants of insurgent military effectiveness
… and train partners, to craft and maintain peace agreements, and to address poor governance that perpetuates conflict.
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Negotiating with Separatist Terrorists
… to ending historic ethnic conflicts? Are certain peace agreements and negotiation strategies more successful than others? And why, after having secured a settlement, do tensions erupt and violations occur?</p> <p>My research indicated that governments negotiate with separatist terrorists when …
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