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Peacebuilding Practice Area
The
Peacebuilding Practice provides legal advice to mediators, states, and
sub-state entities during armed conflicts, and assistance with drafting
peace agreements and post-conflict constitutions.
Peace
Negotiations and Post-Conflict Constitutions
PILPG
is frequently called upon to provide legal and political counsel to
parties and mediators engaged in peace negotiations and in drafting
post-conflict constitutions. To date, PILPG has assisted with nearly a
dozen peace negotiations and has provided numerous legal memoranda on
all aspects of the negotiation process.
Negotiation
Simulations
As part of its Peacebuilding Practice, PILPG
drafts and runs negotiation simulations for current conflict areas
around the globe in order to train parties in negotiating techniques
and to assist in the development of innovative diplomatic solutions to
armed conflicts. The negotiation simulations are run both for the
policy making community in Washington, D.C., and in some instances
in-country, as part of a training program for the parties to the
conflict.
The
purpose of the simulations is to surface critical issues in each
conflict, test new approaches to conflicts, and devise innovative
diplomatic solutions. Following each simulation, PILPG drafts and
distributes a Lessons Learned Report, which highlights key lessons that
may be applicable during the upcoming negotiations.
Peace
Agreement Drafter’s Handbook
The
Drafter’s Handbook is designed to serve as a practical guide
for diplomats and lawyers involved in the negotiation and drafting of
peace treaties and similar international agreements. The Handbook does
not proffer advice on how to reach an agreement. Rather, the Handbook
is designed to facilitate the ability of the parties to translate their
political agreements into legally binding treaty language. Emphasis is
placed on crafting provisions in such a way as to enhance their
implementation.
The
Handbook is divided into a series of subject matter templates such as
ceasefires, demilitarization and disarmament, elections, and human
rights. Each template contains a brief primer on the subject, a
detailed comparative analysis of language used in previous peace
agreements, model language, and a brief summary of the political
context of relevant previous agreements.
Post-Conflict
Constitution Drafter's Handbook
The Post-Conflict Constitution Drafter's
Handbook is designed to serve as a practical guide for diplomats and
lawyers involved in the negotiation and drafting of post-conflict
constitutions and similar international agreements. The Constitution
Handbook does not proffer advice on how to reach an agreement in a
post-conflict constitution. Rather, it is designed to facilitate the
ability of the parties to translate their political agreements into
constitutional language. Emphasis is placed on crafting articles and
amendments in such a way as to enhance their effectiveness.
Quick
Guides
Over
the course of the past ten years PILPG has been called upon to provide
legal assistance with a wide variety of issues faced by parties
participating in peace negotiations or drafting post-conflict
constitutions. The Quick Guides project is the result of a decision by
PILPG to distill some of our most important and widely sought after
legal memoranda into a format easily accessible to a wide audience.
Earned
Sovereignty
The
intensity and severity of sovereignty-based conflicts, their
relationship to increasing levels of terrorism, and the lack of
effective legal norms and principles have given rise to the need for a
new approach to resolving sovereignty-based conflicts. This need is
increasingly being met by the emerging conflict resolution approach of
earned sovereignty. Despite the increasing ad hoc reliance on the
approach of earned sovereignty by mediators and parties to conflict,
there is scant scholarly commentary as to the precise nature of the
approach, the political debate surrounding its use, and its utility for
resolving sovereignty-based conflicts. To initiate the debate, the
Public International Law & Policy Group has published a series
of articles with the Stanford Journal of International Law, and the
Denver Journal of International Law and Policy.
Peace
Negotiations Watch
Peace Negotiations Watch is a weekly
electronic compilation of articles about various disputes around the
world. The table of contents can include such disputes as
Armenia/Azerbaijan, Burundi, Chechnya, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Cyprus, Georgia/Abkhazia, Indonesia/Aceh, Ivory Coast, Kashmir,
Macedonia, Nepal, Somalia, Sri Lanka , and Sudan but may vary from week
to week.
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