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Peace Accord (peace + accord)

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Humanities and Social Sciences	80%

Selected Abstracts

Looking beyond food aid to livelihoods, protection and partnerships: strategies for WFP in the Darfur states

DISASTERS, Issue 2007
Helen Young
The humanitarian crisis in Darfur remains extremely serious. The optimism that followed the signing of the Abuja Peace Accord was followed by a rapid deterioration in security on the ground in part associated with increasing factionalism in various rebel movements. This paper briefly reviews the evolution of the crisis, its impact on lives and livelihoods and the response by the World Food Programme (WFP) to June 2006. The major challenges and issues facing the food aid programme in the previous 18 months included: dealing with insecurity while maintaining or even extending programme outreach; the need to link protection with assistance more explicitly; and determining the wider impact of food aid programming on the processes and institutions linked with the conflict. The paper discusses the main strategic issues facing WFP in the future such as: integrating security and protection with needs assessments and operational decisions, broadening response strategies beyond food aid and bringing livelihoods to the fore, the need to review cost-efficiency, promoting partnerships and strengthening national and regional capacities. [source]

Police Reform and the Peace Process in Guatemala: the Fifth Promotion of the National Civilian Police

BULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, Issue 4 2001
Marie-Louise Glebbeek
After 36 years of mostly authoritarian rule and often bitter civil conflict in Guatemala, the December 1996 Peace Accords prepared the ground for a new phase of reconstruction, democratisation and social and institutional reform. Prior to the Peace Accords, policing in Guatemala had been often violent, repressive and subordinated to the counterinsurgency logic of the military. Security sector reform intentions included the abolition of existing police forces and the creation of a new National Civil Police (PNC). The PNC was meant to give substance to a new way of policing in tune with the building of democratic governance and effective law enforcement. This paper examines the general background of the reforms, discusses the limitations of the results so far, and takes a particular and critical look at one of the key components of the police reform: the recruitment and training of PNC aspirants, using the case of the 1999 Fifth Promotion that entered the Academy of the PNC. [source]

The Wrong Mental Image of Settlement

NEGOTIATION JOURNAL, Issue 1 2001
Christopher Honeyman
Negotiation participants usually think of "settlement" as the official end of a coflict; the author points out that this mental image is inaccurate in many situations, where a settlement is followed by additional eruptions of conflict. He uses the recent Good Friday peace accord in Northern Ireland as an example of the continuing nature of many conflicts; theorizes as to why we have this incorrect mental image in general; and suggests ways we can present a more accurate representatin of a conflict's life cycle. [source]

A Disparity of Esteem: Relative Group Status in Northern Ireland after the Belfast Agreement

POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 1 2007
Roger Mac Ginty
Using the case of a deeply divided society (Northern Ireland) in the aftermath of a major peace accord, this article combines two methodological approaches to assess the public reception of the peace accord and its impact on intergroup competition. The social psychological concept of esteem (central to social identity theory) and time-series data are used to assess intergroup relations between Protestant-unionists and Catholic-nationalists in Northern Ireland in the wake of the 1998 peace accord. By illustrating the disparity of esteem between the two main politico-religious groups, the article indicates early settlement weakness. Moreover, it suggests a conceptual approach that may be applicable to the study of intergroup competitions in other divided societies. [source]