Since the first feminist foreign policy (FFP) was adopted by Sweden in 2014, sixteen countries have either published an FFP or announced their intention to do so. Some proponents of FFPs have indicated that these policies can be a way to democratize and…
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Based on the study of every internationally negotiated civil war settlement between 1980 and 1998, this volume presents the most comprehensive effort to date to evaluate the role of international actors in peace implementation.It looks into promises made by combatants in peace agreements and examines when and why those promises are fulfilled. The authors differentiate […]
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Ending a two-decade-long armed insurgency, the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord was signed in December 1997 by the government of Bangladesh and the PCJSS, the political representative of the Hill people. However, because of ambiguities within the accord and the failure to implement many of its crucial elements, the situation in the CHT today is […]
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This report presents some of the views and themes discussed at the IPA [now IPI] Civil Society Dialogue on “Civil Society Perspectives from the Mano River Union (MRU),” held in New York on June 14, 2002.The meeting provided a platform for civil society leaders from the three Mano River Union countries (Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra […]
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Globalization, suggest the authors of this collection, is creating new opportunities—some legal, some illicit—for armed factions to pursue their agendas in civil war.Within this context, they analyze the key dynamics of war economies and the challenges posed for conflict resolution and sustainable peace. Thematic chapters consider key issues in the political economy of internal wars, […]
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The International Peace Institute, in collaboration with and thanks to generous support from the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, convened a high-level retreat on May 16-17 entitled From Promise to Practice: Revitalizing the General Assembly for the New Millennium.The retreat brought together, in an informal setting, approximately twenty-five permanent representatives and a […]
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