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. 

Table of Contents

Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration

Core Elements

Comparative State Practice

Dealing with Small Arms

Transforming Military and Paramilitary Forces

Making the Transition from a Rebel Group to a Political Party

Devolution

Core Elements

Comparative State Practice

Symmetric vs. Asymmetric

Concurrent Powers

Federal Territories

Noncontiguous Territorial Units

State Assumption of Provincial Powers

State-Province Coordination

Devolution (Fiscal)

Core Elements

Comparative State Practice

Dispute Resolution

Core Elements

Comparative State Practice

Economic Reconstruction

Core Elements

Property Restitution

Targeted Development Mechanisms

Human Rights

Core Elements

Comparative State Practice

Domestic Implementation

Women’s Rights

Minority Protections

Core Elements

Executive Branch Mechanisms

Legislative Mechanisms

The Peace Negotiation Process

Comparative State Practice

Peace Secretariats

Role of the International Community

Confidence Building Measures

Return of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

Core Elements

Comparative State Practice

Self Governance

Core Elements

Comparative State Practice

The Structure of Peace Agreements

Core Elements

Comparative State Practice

Domestic Implementation

Legal Enforceability

Territorial Integrity