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Peace agreements: the role of human rights in negotiations (2006)
Introduction
Are peace agreements negotiated more easily if they include references to human rights? If so, is peace more durable as a result? Negotiating Justice? examines eight recent peace agreements to assess how they addressed such issues as impunity and forcible displacement. It concludes that human rights can make practical and positive contributions to many areas of conflict resolution. Each chapter ends with recommendations and questions that can help negotiators, mediators and human rights advocates to address dilemmas that arise during the negotiation of peace agreements and when the latter are implemented.
Foreword by Thomas Greminger, Head of the Human Security Division at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, and Petter Wille, Deputy Director General at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Research team
Biographical affiliation was accurate when research took place.
Research director
Jean-Nicolas Beuze, Research Director, ICHRP, 2004-2006. For more information on this project, please contact Fairouz El Tom, Outreach and Publications Coordinator, ICHRP.
Lead researcher
Christine Bell, was at the time of the project Director of the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), and Professor of Public International Law at the University of Ulster. Christine Bell has been involved with peace process negotiations in different countries suffering from ethnic conflict, as well as in human rights training for lawyers in Egypt, India and Northern Ireland. After a period in practice as a Law Associate in the law offices of Debevoise and Plimpton in New York (1990-2000), she directed the Centre for International and Comparative Human Rights Law at Queen’s University of Belfast. Christine Bell has been active in non-governmental organisations, and was chairperson of the Belfast-based human rights organisation, the Committee on the Administration of Justice from 1995-97, and a founding member of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission established under the terms of the Belfast Agreement. She has published widely in the area of human rights, equality and gender issues, and has authored the book Peace Agreements and Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Advisors
Suliman Baldo, Director, Africa Programme, International Crisis Group.
Maggie Beirne, Director, The Committee on the Administration of Justice.
Frank La Rue, Special Advisor on Human Rights to the President, Guatemala.
Ian Martin, Vice-President of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ); Board Member, ICHRP.
Francesc Vendrell, EU Special Representative in Afghanistan.
Researchers
Jasna Baksic Muftic, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo.
Fionnuala Ní Aolaín, Professor of Law, Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, Belfast.
Andrea Bartoli, Senior Research Scholar, Director, Center for International Conflict Resolution, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
Martha Doggett, Senior Political Affairs Officer, Americas and Europe Division; Representative, Rule of Law Focal Points Network, Department of Political Affairs, United Nations.
Adrian Edwards, journalist and spokesperson, UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.
Fabienne Hara, fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University.
Rati Jebashvili, Research Assistant, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
Ingrid Kircher, Humanitarian Affairs Advisor, Médecins sans Frontières.
Marcie Mersky, independent consultant.
Michael O’Flaherty, Reader in Human Rights; Co-Director, Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham.
Bill O’Neil, independent consultant.
Michelle Parlevliet, Research Associate and independent consultant, Joan B. Institutions Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Catherine Phuong, Lecturer in law, University of Newcastle.
Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
Documents
Report
Summary
Working papers
Forcible Displacement in Peace Agreements
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Human Rights in Negotiating Peace Agreements: Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Human Rights in Negotiating Peace Agreements: Burundi
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Human Rights in Negotiating Peace Agreements: El Salvador
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Human Rights in Negotiating Peace Agreements: Final Act of the Paris Conference on Cambodia
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Human Rights in Negotiating Peace Agreements: Guatemala
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Human Rights in Negotiating Peace Agreements: Mozambique
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Human Rights in Negotiating Peace Agreements: Sierra Leone
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Human Rights in Negotiating Peace Agreements: The Good Friday Agreement
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National Human Rights Institutions and Peace Agreements: Establishing National Institutions in Divided Societies
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Reform Of Law Enforcement Agencies and the Judiciary
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Transitional Justice and Peace Agreements
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