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    Making deals for peace: the peace and justice dilemma

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2011
    Conflict mediators must constantly balance issues of peace and justice when designing peace agreements. This paper probes how peace and justice, two distinct but interrelated concepts, interact within the African peacebuilding context.
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    Peace implementation in the post-2005 era: lessons from four peace agreements in Africa

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2011
    This Policy & Practice Brief focuses on four peace agreements, namely the 2005 Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), the 2007 Ouagadougou Peace Agreement (OPA) in Côte d’Ivoire, the 2008 Kenya National Accord (KNA), and the 2008 Global Political Agreement (GPA) in Zimbabwe.
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    Managing election-related violence: elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2011
    Electoral violence has been defined as acts or threats of coercion, intimidation, or physical harm perpetrated to affect an electoral process, or that arises in thecontext of electoral competition
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    Responsibility to protect: why Libya and not Syria?

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2012
    While the intervention in Libya saved relatively many lives, there is hesitation to intervene in Syria due to geopolitics, despite the threshold for intervention having been reached. However, by endorsing the notion of responsibility to protect, UN Member States, including the Security Council, agreed to act collectively to save humanity from atrocities.
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    The peace process in the DRC: a transformation quagmire

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2013
    Since the 1990s the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has continued to be mired in intractable conflicts. Despite the establishment of an elected government in 2006 following the implementation of a series of peace agreements, the country still faces challenges in consolidating peace throughout its territory.
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    The troubled road to peace: reflections on the complexities of resolving the political impasse in Madagascar

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2013
    Madagascar was thrown into political crisis in 2009 by an unconstitutional change in leadership which replaced Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina as head of state. Over the past four years this crisis deteriorated into a firmly-imbedded political impasse.
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    The OAU/AU and an Africa at peace with itself: time for serious business

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2013
    This Policy & Practice Brief (PPB) is a postscript to the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and the 21st African Union (AU) Summit which took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 19 to 27 May 2013.
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    Reconciliation without regret: national healing and reconciliation in South Sudan

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2014
    In 2011, southern Sudan witnessed a successful and peaceful referendum, culminating in its secession from the Republic of Sudan and the birth of an independent Republic of South Sudan on 9 July.
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    The conflict management work of the Civil Affairs Division of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS)

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2011
    Since the establishment of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) in 2005, the Civil Affairs Division (CAD) has gained considerable field experience with local-level conflict management in the complex conflict environment in Southern Sudan and the Three Areas.
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    Strategies to prevent and manage electoral violence: considerations for policy

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2010
    Electoral violence is a sub-category of political violence, which deserves special consideration from the policy community. Indeed, electoral violence has received increasing international attention in recent years due to the devastating effects of outbreaks of violence in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan around elections.

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