TY - JOUR
T1 - The spaces of local agreements
T2 - Towards a new imaginary of the peace process
AU - Bell, Christine
AU - Wise, Laura
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is an output for the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform, which is funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), UK for the benefit of developing countries. The information and views set out in this publication are those of the authors. Nothing herein constitutes the views of FCDO. Any use of this work should acknowledge the authors and the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform. The authors are grateful to the many contributors and supporters of this work, including Susanne Buckley-Zistel and Annika Björkdahl for their considered responses to earlier drafts. Thanks are due to Robert Forster for his contributions to our earlier work and thinking on local agreements; to Monalisa Adhikari, Sanja Badanjak, Juline Beaujouan, Margherita Distrotti, Tim Epple, and Robert Wilson for their collaborative work with us on the PA-X Local Peace Agreements Database; to Fiona Knäussel for work on the illustration in Figure 1; and to Jan Pospisil and the expert contributors and participants of two joint analysis workshops on local peace processes organised by the Political Settlements Research Programme and the British Academy in London and Nairobi in 2019, which moved our thinking forward.
PY - 2023/2/1
Y1 - 2023/2/1
N2 - This article examines when, how and why local agreements are used to end violent conflict, drawing on a new global dataset of local agreements. It provides a typology of security functions that local agreements deliver at different stages of the conflict-to-peace cycle, and the types of space they address and create. It examines the relationship of local agreements to national peacemaking processes, arguing that they reveal the nested nature of local, national, transnational, and international conflict in protracted conflict settings. This reality points to the need for a new political imaginary for peace processes design. The conclusion sketches its contours.
AB - This article examines when, how and why local agreements are used to end violent conflict, drawing on a new global dataset of local agreements. It provides a typology of security functions that local agreements deliver at different stages of the conflict-to-peace cycle, and the types of space they address and create. It examines the relationship of local agreements to national peacemaking processes, arguing that they reveal the nested nature of local, national, transnational, and international conflict in protracted conflict settings. This reality points to the need for a new political imaginary for peace processes design. The conclusion sketches its contours.
KW - local peace agreements
KW - peacebuilding
KW - peace processes
KW - conflict
KW - space
U2 - 10.1080/17502977.2022.2156111
DO - 10.1080/17502977.2022.2156111
M3 - Article
SN - 1750-2977
VL - 16
SP - 563
EP - 583
JO - Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
JF - Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
IS - 5
ER -