Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1163/15718069-bja10085
Miriam J. Anderson, G. Golan
Despite the global norm favoring women’s participation in peace negotiations, women continue to face constraints in accessing, influencing, and benefitting from peace settlements. This special issue of International Negotiation lays the groundwork for a future research agenda, calling for attention to gender-based analysis; mixed-method research designs, comparative case studies, and attention to “negative” cases; more examination of the relationship between gender-inclusivity at peace talks and the subsequent conditions for women; and policy recommendations for international actors. This introduction to the issue provides a review of the literature on women and peace negotiations, offers an overview of the issue’s six articles, and proposes a future research agenda.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1163/15718069-bja10091
Gül M. Gür
Although bi-communal violence in Cyprus ended almost 50 years ago, the island’s northern and southern sides have yet to reach a comprehensive peace deal. As a result, Cypriots live in a state of functional coexistence whereby they interact with each other in a limited fashion and nonviolently. This article examines the most common explanations for the status quo of nonresolution that has existed in Cyprus for decades before offering a new explanation to consider and address this nonresolution: the mismatch between “liberal” peacebuilding interventions and “illiberal” conditions. To overcome this mismatch, this article argues that it is first necessary to address illiberal conditions to allow peacebuilding attempts to be successful. If illiberalities are not dealt with, they will not only sustain and perpetuate nonresolution, but they will also prevent the emergence of positive peace.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-22DOI: 10.1163/15718069-bja10088
Sarah Clowry
Abstract In this article, I argue the following: mediation can operate as an arena in which identities are reconstructed while the very occurrence of mediation can trigger and fuel processes of identity reconstruction. More precisely, the norms promoted through mediation can serve to reconstruct the identities of the conflict parties. I will make this claim by examining two contemporary instances of mediation in Syria and Yemen, cases which diverge in the third-party peacemaking approach taken. I investigate these cases by gathering and thematically analyzing an original qualitative dataset comprising 74 semi-structured interviews, 50 press conferences, and 110 official documents. My analysis challenges existing literature concerning the intertwinement of norms, identity, and mediation; contributes to our understanding of how identities in Syria and Yemen were transformed following the revolutions of 2011; and interrogates traditional understandings of the purpose and effects of mediation.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-22DOI: 10.1163/15718069-bja10089
Clare Bath, Philip Gamaghelyan
Peace and conflict studies is a normative field that seeks to reduce or eradicate violence. With multiple forms of violence plaguing human society, institutionalization of civil society has long been a tenet of liberal approaches to peace intended to enhance sustainability and policy impact of activism. Along with benefits, however, institutionalization brought with it a set of challenges, including cooptation by donors and competition among activists. The article builds on the analysis of 14 in-depth interviews, insights gathered from the “Rethinking Peace” workshop conducted in Mtsheka, Georgia in July 2022, and desk research on the risks and benefits of institutionalization of activism in the context of peacebuilding in the South Caucasus and the civil rights movement in the United States. Despite clear contextual differences and varying degrees of commitment to liberal and post-liberal approaches to peace, the article highlights striking similarities when it comes to benefits and challenges of institutionalization.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1163/15718069-bja10087
A. Guilbaud
Based on empirical fieldwork, this article analyzes the negotiation of a Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors (FENSA) at the World Health Organization (WHO) between 2011 and 2016. The study examines the long and difficult negotiation process, which shifts from a mere adaptation of guidelines by the WHO Secretariat to an intergovernmental negotiation led by a core group of Member States. This negotiation process cannot simply be explained by traditional dialogues among delegations and hierarchical relationships within international organizations. Other factors played important roles in the process as well – the high political stakes of the issue, non-traditional coalition games, heterogeneity among the actors, and the WHO Secretariat’s role as a negotiating party – all advocating for the development of a triangular, multi-voice negotiation model within international organizations.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-08DOI: 10.1163/15718069-20231352
C. Mitchell
This article focuses on an old type of imposed peace settlement which has been enjoying something of a revival in the past decade and has challenged the dominant “liberal peace” model as a way of ending violence in a conflict. It seeks to clarify what is meant by an “illiberal” or authoritarian peace by re-examining and contrasting the essential characters of a liberal peace. The study uses the series of peace agreements in Central America and elsewhere during the 1990s as examples, and then contrasts these with authoritarian or “illiberal” settlements, ending by asking whether an “illiberal,” or even a “victor’s” peace, might be more durable, at least in the short run.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.1163/15718069-02801000
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Pub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.1163/15718069-28011260
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Pub Date : 2022-12-13DOI: 10.1163/15718069-bja10084
M. Tadevosyan
With the global proliferation of the liberal peace agenda, there has been an increase in attention to the participation of non-governmental organizations (NGO s) in the development and support of national peace agendas. However, with the rise of authoritarian states around the world, and the closing of civic spaces, NGO s have become constrained and limited in their actions. We often see autocratic and repressive regimes not welcoming the implementation of any initiatives that fall outside the scope of their official negotiation platforms, and therefore, limiting the participation of their citizens in unofficial peacebuilding initiatives. Through the application of the authoritarian conflict management framework, this article discusses the challenges of carrying out peacebuilding work in such non-permissive environments in the context of the South Caucasus and points out ways that local peacebuilding organizations and peace activists work around these restrictions to negotiate the reconciliation space that they are attempting to create.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-13DOI: 10.1163/15718069-bja10083
Jia Wen Liang
In business negotiations, negotiators’ behavioral biases can lead to irrational negotiation performance and further injure long-term business development. Dao, an ancient Chinese philosophical theory, can provide negotiators with a new perspective on considering reasons and solutions to behavioral biases by analyzing complex situations in business negotiation in a more comprehensive and objective manner. A feature of Dao is Yin Yang, and the essence of Dao is composed of causality and unforeseen events. Causality is not always apparent. According to the Dao framework, the combination of the mix of ‘Yin and Yang,’ ‘broader effects,’ the time gap between cause and effect, and unforeseen events in business negotiation can distort negotiators’ perspectives and lead to behavioral biases. This article discusses the formation of behavioral biases from the perspective of Dao and how to reduce the biases in business negotiations according to the wisdom of Dao.
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