Peace process

Peace process

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The programme monitors current armed conflicts and non-armed conflicts that have yet to be resolved, in order to analyse exploratory talks or formal peace negotiations, and perform a comparative analysis of the components of all these processes. This monitoring is the basis for the chapters on peace processes in the publications Barómetro (quarterly) and Alerta! (yearly), and for the production of the Peace Processes Yearbook.

The Programme also seeks to highlight some contexts and some occasions where a specific contribution seems to be fit. This emphasis is embodied in the Colombia Programme.

Yearbook on Peace Processes
Monday, 08 April 2013
This eighth edition of the Yearbook on Peace Processes analyses conflicts in which negotiations are being held to reach a peace agreement, regardless of whether these negotiations are formalised, are in the exploratory phase, are faring well or, to the contrary, are stalled or in the midst of crisis. It also analyses some cases in which negotiations or explorations are partial; that is, they do not include all the armed groups present in the country (such as the case of India, for example). The... Read more...

Cease fire! Handbook of Peace Processes
Monday, 05 July 2010
Vicenç Fisas, Director of the School of Peace Culture, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. “A peace process is an effort to achieve an agreement that puts an end to violence, as well as to implement it, through negotiations that may require mediation by third parties”. With this initial definition, I want to stress the idea that a “process” is not a point in time; rather it is a series of phases or stages occurring over a period of... Read more...

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