This article examines when, how and why local agreements are used to end violent conflict, drawing on a new global dataset of agreements. It provides typology security functions that deliver at different stages the conflict-to-peace cycle, types space they address create. relationship national peacemaking processes, arguing reveal nested nature local, national, transnational, international conf...

PATTERNS OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION: IDENTIFYING SEQUENCES AND COMPARING PROCESSES OF PEACEMAKING This article introduces and justifies the research method followed in the case studies discussed below, which form part of a collective research project. In contrast to dominant approaches to the study of conflict and settlement which narrow the parameters of study to particular levels of violent confl...

The first ten months of the Obama administration’s efforts to achieve a breakthrough in Arab-Israeli peacemaking have led to widespread disappointment among Palestinians and to growing anxiety among Israelis. Inevitably, this unsatisfactory interim report card is partly a result of the high expectations created by President Barack Obama himself, during the presidential campaign as well as in hi...

The African Union (AU) and most of the regional organisations on the continent have a mandate to engage in mediation and other forms of peacemaking.2 In practice these organisations and their member states, at times with the support of the UN, non-governmental bodies and international bilateral partners, have undertaken mediation in many countries, including Burundi, Chad, the Comoros, the Demo...