Sustaining Peace One Day at a Time: Inclusion, Transition Crises, and the Resilience of Social Contracts

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Study finds that including both “the elite” and the wider “society” in peace processes is key for sustaining peace.

Case studies

The study finds that including both elites and wider society in peace processes works as what the authors call “a driver of resilient social contracting”.  This in turn supports a more sustainable peace.

Gender, Justice and Deliberation: Why Women Don’t Influence Peacemaking

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Gender-based differences in discourse during peacemaking perpetuate marginalization of women’s needs and concerns.


Key Policy Findings

There has been considerable academic and policy focus on representation - increasing the number of women ‘at the table’ in peacemaking processes, and counting ‘provisions of peace agreements that refer to women’.

Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa

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Domestic factors are vital to ensure States implement progressive women’s rights practices, including the establishment of specialised mechanisms (police forces, prosecutor offices, courts) for managing gender-based crimes.


Summary 

This book investigates post-conflict policing of violence against women, and explains why certain countries have institutionalised specialised mechanisms for dealing with gender-based violence crimes, and others have not.

Measuring Peace: Principles, Practices, and Politics

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Study argues that peacebuilding is hampered by the lack of effective means of assessing progress towards the achievement of a consolidated peace, and suggests ways to improve our monitoring and assessments of the quality of peace in the context of peacebuilding.


Key Policy Findings:

Every peacebuilding strategy is predicated on a conception of peace, whether implicit or explicit.  It can be as basic as the absen

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