Table Of ContentPEACE AGREEMENTS
To Emma and Sebastian
PEACE AGREEMENTS
FINDING SOLUTIONS TO INTRA-STATE
CONFLICTS
NINA CASPERSEN
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vi
Abbreviations vii
Introduction 1
Part 1: Content
1 Territory 15
2 Security 39
3 Power 64
4 Justice 89
5 A Post-Cold War Blueprint for Peace? 114
Part 2: Context and Process
6 Internal Dynamics: A Right Time for Peace 137
7 External Involvement: Opportunities and Constraints 160
Conclusion 185
Notes 192
References 197
Index 217
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
While working on this book I have become indebted to a large
number of people. Particular thanks are owed to my colleagues and
students in the Department of Politics at the University of York, who
provided a stimulating intellectual environment that allowed me
to try out some of my initial ideas. The British Academy awarded
me a Mid-Career Fellowship which gave me much-needed time for
research and writing. I am immensely grateful for this. Polity has been
a supportive and patient publisher throughout, and I thank Louise
Knight, Nekane Tanaka Galdos and the two anonymous reviewers
for their constructive comments which helped me clarify, improve
and shorten my arguments. Finally, I thank my beloved partner Keith
for enabling me to finish a book with two small children in the house;
this is undoubtedly the biggest debt of them all.
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ABBREVIATIONS
ABC: Abyei Boundaries Commission (Sudan)
AEC: Assistance and Evaluation Commission (Sudan)
AMM: Aceh Monitoring Mission (Indonesia)
ASEAN: Association of Southeast Asian Nations
CHT: Chittagong Hill Tracts (Bangladesh)
DDR: Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration
DUP: Democratic Unionist Party (Northern Ireland)
ECHR: European Convention of Human Rights
ECtHR: European Court of Human Rights
EU: European Union
GAM: Free Aceh Movement (Indonesia)
HDZ: Croatian Democratic Union (Bosnia)
ICC: International Criminal Court
ICTFY: I nternational Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia
IDPs: Internally displaced people
IFOR: The Implementation Force (Bosnia)
IGAD: Intergovernmental Authority on Development
INTERFET: International Force for East Timor
IRA: Irish Republican Army
LRA: The Lord’s Resistance Army (Sudan)
LTTE: Tamil Tigers (Sri Lanka)
MDFC: Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance
(Senegal)
MILF: Moro Islamic Liberation Front (the Philippines)
MNLF: Moro National Liberation Front (the Philippines)
NCP: National Congress Party (Sudan)
OIC: Organization of the Islamic Conference
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Abbrev iations
OHR: Office of the High Representative (Bosnia)
ORA: Organization of the Armed Resistance (Niger)
OSCE: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
PA: Palestinian Authority (Israel–Palestine)
PJCSS: United People’s Party of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
(Bangladesh)
PLO: Palestine Liberation Organization (Israel–Palestine)
PNG: Papua New Guinea
RS: Republika Srpska (Bosnia)
SDLP: Social Democratic and Labour Party (Northern
Ireland)
SPLM/A: Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement/Army
SSDF: South Sudan Defence Force
SSR: Security sector reform
STV: Single-Transferable Vote (Northern Ireland)
UN: United Nations
UNITA: National Union for the Total Independence of Angola
UNMIS: United Nations Mission in Sudan
UNOMB: United Nations Observer Mission in Bougainville
UUP: Ulster Unionist Party (Northern Ireland)
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