Peace Agreements

Author : Christine Bell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191551604

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On the Law of Peace by Christine Bell Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the use of peace agreements from a legal perspective. It describes and evaluates the development of contemporary peace processes and the peace agreements that emerge. The book sets out what is in essence an anatomy of peace agreement practice and interrogates its relationship to law. At its heart the book grapples with the role of law in ending violent conflict and the broader questions this raises for the relationship of law to social change. Law potentially plays two key roles with respect to peace agreements: first, to the extent that peace agreements themselves form legal documents, law plays a role in the 'enforcement' or implementation of the peace agreement; second, international law has a relationship to peace agreement negotiation and content, in its regulatory guise. International Law regulates self-determination, transitional justice, and the role of third parties. The book documants and analyses these two roles of law. In doing so, the book reveals a complex dynamic relationship between the peace agreement as a legal document and the role of international law in which international law and concepts of domestic constitutionalism are being re-shaped. The practice of negotiating peace agreements is argued to be producing a new law of the peacemaker-or lex pacificatoria that connects developments in international law with new forms of domestic constitutional law in a set of hybrid relationships. This law of the peacemaker potentially forms part of a broader 'law of peace' that moves beyond the traditional concept of law of peace as merely 'the rest of international law' once the laws of war are subtracted. The new lex pacificatoria stands as an account of the way in which international law shapes and is shaped by peace agreements. The book proposes an ambivalent response to 'this new law' which connects to contemporary debates about the force of international law and its appropriate relationship with domestic constitutonalism.

Author : Eiki Berg,Shpend Kursani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000518597

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De Facto States and Land-for-Peace Agreements by Eiki Berg,Shpend Kursani Pdf

This book presents an analytical framework which assesses how 'land-for-peace' agreements can be achieved in the context of territorial conflicts between de facto states and their respective parent states. The volume examines geographic solutions to resolving ongoing conflicts that stand between the principle of self-determination (prompted by de facto states) and the principle of territorial integrity (prompted by parent states). The authors investigate the conditions under which territorial adjustments can bring about a possibility for peace between de facto states and their parent states. It does so by interrogating the possibility of land-for-peace agreements in four de facto state–parent state pairs, namely Kosovo–Serbia, Nagorno–Karabakh–Azerbaijan, Northern Cyprus–Republic of Cyprus, and Abkhazia–Georgia. The book suggests that the value that parties put on land to be exchanged and peace to be achieved stand at odds for land-for-peace agreements to materialise. The book brings theoretical and empirical insights that open several avenues for discussions on the conservative stance that the international community has held on territorial changes in the post-1945 international order. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, state formation, secessionism, political geography, and international relations.

Author : Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora,Andrés Molina-Ochoa,Nancy C. Doubleday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000375206

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The Colombian Peace Agreement by Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora,Andrés Molina-Ochoa,Nancy C. Doubleday Pdf

This book is the first systematic, interdisciplinary examination of the peace agreement signed between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to end one of the largest and most violent conflicts in the Western Hemisphere. It discusses the achievements, failures, and challenges of this innovative peace agreement and its implications for Colombia’s future. Contributors include negotiators of the Agreement, judges of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, representatives of the civil society, and leading academic experts in peace studies, human rights, international law, criminal law, transitional justice, political science, and philosophy. Based on the premise that peace is a form of transferable social knowledge, and therefore necessitates transformative social learning, the volume also discusses what other countries can learn from the Colombian experience. This book will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies, transitional justice, Latin American politics, human rights, civil wars and International Relations.

Author : Christine Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0199270961

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Peace Agreements and Human Rights by Christine Bell Pdf

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Author : Stephen John Stedman,Donald S. Rothchild,Elizabeth M. Cousens
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1588260836

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Ending Civil Wars by Stephen John Stedman,Donald S. Rothchild,Elizabeth M. Cousens Pdf

"A project of the International Peace Academy and CISAC, The Center for International Security and Cooperation"--P. ii.

Author : Nina Caspersen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509515691

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Peace Agreements by Nina Caspersen Pdf

Since the end of the Cold War a significant number of peace agreements have been signed, many of them in bloody intra-state conflicts that were previously thought beyond resolution. How have these agreements addressed issues of territory, security, power and justice? Do they reveal a blueprint for peace, and what can we learn from both their successes and their failures? This timely book provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge analysis of peace agreements signed in separatist conflicts from 1990 to the present day. Drawing on a diverse range of cases, including Bosnia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sudan, Israel-Palestine and Ukraine, it analyses the different peace 'packages', focusing on the interaction of the elements in play, and exploring the impact of political contestation within conflict parties and of peace process dynamics. Though some of these agreements have displayed great ingenuity in finding lasting solutions, many have relied on more traditional, and often problematic, designs. For all such agreements, the enduring challenge is that of ensuring flexibility while avoiding destructive ambiguity. This is why the content of peace agreements really matters - not only to sustain peace once it is achieved but to make the prospect of peace possible in the first place.

Author : Oliver P. Richmond,Gëzim Visoka
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1796 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030779542

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies by Oliver P. Richmond,Gëzim Visoka Pdf

This encyclopaedia provides a comprehensive overview of major theories and approaches to the study of peace and conflict across different humanities and social sciences disciplines. Peace and conflict studies (PCS) is one of the major sub-disciplines of international studies (including political science and international relations), and has emerged from a need to understand war, related systems and concepts and how to respond to it afterward. As a living reference work, easily discoverable and searchable, the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies offers solid material for understanding the foundational, historical, and contemporary themes, concepts, theories, events, organisations, and frameworks concerning peace, conflict, security, rights, institutions and development. The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Peace and Conflict Studies brings together leading and emerging scholars from different disciplines to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on peace and conflict studies ever produced.

Author : Steven van Hoogstraten,Nico Schrijver,Otto Spijkers,Anneleen de Jong
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004321243

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The Art of Making Peace by Steven van Hoogstraten,Nico Schrijver,Otto Spijkers,Anneleen de Jong Pdf

This unique volume looks at international peace treaties, at their results, effects and failures. It reflects the outcome of an international conference held in the Peace Palace (The Hague) on the occasion of the Centenary of this institution, which opened its doors on the eve of World War I.

Author : Christine Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199226832

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On the Law of Peace by Christine Bell Pdf

Analysing how and why peace agreements are produced, this title focuses on the extent to which they are regulated by law, or impose legally binding obligations.

Author : John J. Maresca
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838216324

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The Unknown Peace Agreement by John J. Maresca Pdf

The “Joint Declaration of Twenty-two States,” signed in Paris on November 19, 1990 by the Chiefs of State or Government of all the countries which participated in World War Two in Europe, is the closest document we will ever have to a true “peace treaty” concluding World War II in Europe. In his new book, retired United States Ambassador John Maresca, who led the American participation in the negotiations, explains how this document was quietly negotiated following the reunification of Germany and in view of Soviet interest in normalizing their relations with Europe. With the reunification of Germany which had just taken place it was, for the first time since the end of the war, possible to have a formal agreement that the war was over, and the countries concerned were all gathering for a summit-level signing ceremony in Paris. With Gorbachev interested in more positive relations with Europe, and with the formal reunification of Germany, such an agreement was — for the first time — possible. All the leaders coming to the Paris summit had an interest in a formal conclusion to the War, and this gave impetus for the negotiators in Vienna to draft a document intended to normalize relations among them. The Joint Declaration was negotiated carefully, and privately, among the Ambassadors representing the countries which had participated, in one way or another, in World War Two in Europe, and the resulting document -- the “Joint Declaration” — was signed, at the summit level, at the Elysée Palace in Paris. But it was overshadowed at the time by the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe — signed at the same signature event — and has remained un-noticed since then. No one could possibly have foreseen that the USSR would be dissolved about one year later, making it impossible to negotiate a more formal treaty to close World War II in Europe. The “Joint Declaration” thus remains the closest document the world will ever see to a formal “Peace Treaty” concluding World War Two in Europe. It was signed by all the Chiefs of State or Government of all the countries which participated in World War II in Europe.

Author : Randall Lesaffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139453783

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Peace Treaties and International Law in European History by Randall Lesaffer Pdf

In the formation of the modern law of nations, peace treaties played a pivotal role. Many basic principles and rules that governed and still govern relations between states were introduced and elaborated in the great peace treaties from the Renaissance onwards. Nevertheless, until recently few scholars have studied these primary sources of the law of nations from a juridical perspective. In this edited collection, specialists from all over Europe, including legal and diplomatic historians, international lawyers and an International Relations theorist, analyse peace treaty practice from the late fifteenth century to the Peace of Versailles of 1919. Important emphasis is given to the doctrinal debate about peace treaties and the influence of older, Roman and medieval concepts on modern practices. This book goes back further in time beyond the epochal Peace of Treaties of Westphalia of 1648 and this broader perspective allows for a reassessment of the role of the sovereign state in the modern international legal order.

Author : Tristan Anne Borer,John Darby,Siobhán McEvoy-Levy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073966338

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Peacebuilding After Peace Accords by Tristan Anne Borer,John Darby,Siobhán McEvoy-Levy Pdf

Peace accords are often plagued by problems, including economic hardship, burgeoning crime, postwar trauma, and persistent fear and suspicion. Too often, negotiated settlements merely open another difficult chapter in the peace process, or worse, lead to new phases of conflict. The University of Notre Dame's Research Initiative on the Resolution of Ethnic Conflict (RIREC) explored three significant challenges of the postwar landscape: the effects of violence in internal conflicts after peace agreements have been signed; the contributions of truth-telling mechanisms; and the multidimensional roles played by youth as activists, soldiers, criminals, and community-builders. The project led to the 2006 publication of three edited volumes by the University of Notre Dame Press: John Darby's Violence and Reconstruction; Tristan Anne Borer's Telling the Truths: Truth Telling and Peace Building in Post-Conflict Societies; and Siobhan McEvoy-Levy's Troublemakers or Peacemakers Youth and Post-Accord Peace Building. In Peacebuilding After Peace Accords, the three editors revisit the topics presented in their books. reconstruction and the difficulties in building a sustainable peace in societies recently destabilized by deadly violence. The authors argue that researchers and practitioners should pay greater attention to these challenges, especially how they relate to each other and to different post-accord problems. A foreword by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu sets the context for this volume, and an afterword by Eileen Babbitt reflects on its findings.

Author : Lawrence Martin,John Reed
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 1214 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781584777083

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The Treaties of Peace, 1919-1923 by Lawrence Martin,John Reed Pdf

Author : Malin Akebo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317204138

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Ceasefire Agreements and Peace Processes by Malin Akebo Pdf

This book analyses and compares ceasefire agreements as part of peace processes in intrastate armed conflicts. Research repeatedly underscores the importance of ceasefire agreements in peace processes but suggests that they can influence such processes in fundamentally different ways. However, despite contradictory expectations, remarkably few studies have so far been devoted to systematic and in-depth analysis of ceasefire agreements in contemporary intrastate armed conflicts. This book contributes to filling this gap by using a process-oriented conflict dynamics approach to analyse and explain how ceasefire agreements are being influenced by and in turn influences the broader dynamics of peace processes. Empirically, the book focuses on the armed conflicts in Aceh (Indonesia) and Sri Lanka. Based on document studies and 57 interviews with key actors, it presents comparative insights and in-depth knowledge about ceasefire agreements in different contextual settings. The book problematizes the common assumption in the literature that ceasefire agreements create momentum in peace processes and pave the way to peace, and it provides a more nuanced analysis and understanding based on two empirical cases analysed within a comparative framework. In contrast to conventional wisdom, it demonstrates how ceasefires on the contrary also can have negative implications on peace processes. This book will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, peace studies, intra-state conflict, security studies and IR in general.

Author : Samir Kumar Das
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 0761933913

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Peace Processes and Peace Accords by Samir Kumar Das Pdf

The second volume in the South Asian Peace Studies series, Peace Processes and Peace Accords looks at the political question of peace from three perspectives: the process of peace; the contentious issues involved in the peace process; and the ideologies that come in conflict in this process. Arguing that peace is not a one-time event to be achieved and rejoiced over but a matter to be sustained against various odds, the contributors show that the sustainability of peace depends on a foundation of rights, justice and democracy. Peace accords, they maintain, are only a moment in the process--the very act of signing an accord could mark either a continuation of the same conflict, or simply its metamorphosis. Therefore, as this volume shows, `negotiation` should be redefined as `joint problem-solving` on a long-term sustained basis, rather than `one-off hard bargaining`.