This series focuses on the interface between indigenous culture and conflict resolution and peacebuilding. African culture, viewed as knowledge, practices and institutions, does not form a large part of the tools and mechanisms for resolving conflict and building peace in Africa. This is due to the prominence of external initiatives of conflict resolution and peace initiatives based on liberal ...

States form defensive military alliances to enhance their security in the face of potential or realized interstate conflict. The network of these international alliances is increasingly interconnected, now linking most of the states in a complex web of ties. These alliances can be used both as a tool for securing cooperation and to foster peace between direct partners. However, do indirect conn...

The tremendous costs of conflict have made humans resourceful not only at warfare but also at peacemaking. Although third parties have acted as peacemakers since the dawn of history, little is known about voluntary, informal third-party intervention in conflict. Here we introduce the Peacemaker Game, a novel experimental paradigm, to model and study the interdependence between disputants and th...

The question of why fear overrides hope in societies embarked on the road of peacemaking after years of intractable conflict is answered on the basis of accumulated knowledge in the psychology and sociology of emotions. This knowledge suggests that fear is an automatic emotion, grounded in the perceived present and often based on the memorized past (also processed unconsciously), that leads to ...

The article examines the Democratic Progress Institute’s (DPI) Turkey program as a Track Two comparative consultation initiative applied in case of Turkey’s peace process regarding Kurdish conflict, commonly known ‘resolution/peace process’ (2012–2015). Based on interviews with high- and middle-level actors participating events organized by DPI, investigates extent reached its purposes building...

International aid has influenced and, in part, shaped the artistic sector Africa's Great Lakes region (DRC, Rwanda, Burundi) since 1990s, a period marked by numerous conflicts and mass violence. Due to NGOs’ programmatic foci, artists performing for social change are increasingly compelled focus on reconciliation conflict resolution, generating political awareness bringing about change, healing...

Abstract This article argues that peacemaking became a central strand of political debate and practice in England during the 1640s. The traumatic experiences civil war failure elite politicians to negotiate swift settlement forced English people think more than ever before about how peace could be achieved preserved. Those outside usual spheres decision-making now offered themselves up as media...

This article argues for a new local turn in peace process research to analyze the perspectives and embeddedness of participants Track One negotiations. Historically, practice have focused on mediators’ strategies coaxing belligerent disputants into signing agreements. Problems with implementation such agreements (i.e., peacebuilding peacekeeping) are often faulted as reason their collapse. Howe...

The decades-old armed conflict between the government of Colombia and the FARC guerrilla group has been a highly polarized one, as is evident from the intransigent positions of the two parties and the repeated breakdowns of past peacemaking efforts. To account for this longstanding failure to reach an agreement, a distributive bargaining framework is developed in which a measure of polarization...