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    Under the Acacia: Mediation and the dilemma of inclusion

    "Fostering peace through mediation involves a number of complex and important challenges. A key aspect of any mediation process is the inclusion of primary and secondary actors. This paper examines indigenous approaches to mediation and assesses how…

    Tim Murithi

    Paula Murphy Ives

    • Indigenous mediation
    • African Union (AU)
    • War--Prevention
    • Dispute resolution (Law)
    • Peace-building
    10 pages

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    The Role of Informal Justice Systems in Fostering the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Situations: The Case of Burundi

    "Burundi, a tiny country in Central Africa, is slowly emerging from more than forty years of cyclical violence. The worst episodes, widely recognised as genocide, took place in 1972 with the massacre of tens of thousands of the Hutu ethnic group by …

    Tracy Dexter

    Philippe Ntahombaye

    • Bashingantahe
    • Reconciliation Agreement (APRA)
    • Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
    • Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (UNHCHR)
    • Law
    • Rule of law
    • Dispute resolution (Law)
    • Justice, Administration of
    • Postwar reconstruction
    • Civil war
    60 pages

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    China’s role in the mediation and resolution of conflict in Africa

    "The salience of China in relation to Darfur has generated a paradox in popular perceptions whereby China is seen as both the cause and the potential solution to an armed conflict. Such a black-and-white view may make effective ammunition for advoca…

    Daniel Large

    • African Union (AU)
    • United Nations (UN)
    • United Nations/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID)
    • Mediation
    • War
    • War--Prevention
    • Peace-building
    • Dispute resolution (Law)
    8 pages

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    The challenge of building sustainable peace in the DRC

    "Over the last ten years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has witnessed an extraordinary number of attempts by both regional and international actors to solve what is considered Africa's largest conflict. As we are about to celebrate the tenth anni…

    Tatiana Carayannis

    • Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
    • UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC)
    • United Nations (UN)
    • FDLR (Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda)
    • Peace
    • Peace-building
    • War
    • War--Prevention
    • Dispute resolution (Law)
    20 pages

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    Negotiating peace in Sierra Leone: Confronting the justice challenge

    "How specific justice issues came to be included in and potentially excluded from the 1999 Lomé Peace Accord. In addition to closely studying the negotiations dynamics and influences that led to the final agreement, this case study examines how just…

    Priscilla Hayner

    • United Nations (UN)
    • Revolutionary United Front (RUF)
    • West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG)
    • Law
    • Rule of law
    • Justice, Administration of
    • Dispute resolution (Law)
    • Peace-building
    • Disarmament
    • Human Rights
    40 pages

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    Mediation efforts in Africa’s Great Lakes Region

    "This paper reviews the mediation experiences by presenting a chronology that starts from Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi's intervention in Uganda's civil war in 1985 and ends with Botswana's former President Ketumile Masire's mediation of the conf…

    Gilbert M. Khadiagala

    • Mediation
    • Organization of African Unity (OAU)
    • Inter-Congolese Dialogue (ICD)
    • Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
    • Peace-building
    • War--Prevention
    • Dispute resolution (Law)
    17 pages

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    Mediating Election-Related Conflicts

    "Beyond major conflicts in Africa over the territorial integrity of states such as Sudan and Somalia, many recent conflicts on the continent are ignited by grievances over bad governance and exclusionary political practices. In many cases, flawed or…

    Chris Fomunyoh

    • Southern African Development Community (SADC)
    • Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
    • Elections
    • Violence
    • Peace-building
    • Civil war
    • Dispute resolution (Law)
    20 pages

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    African Mediators’ Retreat 2009

    "This publication is a meeting report on the African Mediators' Retreat 2009, which took place on 24-27 March in Zanzibar. The retreat was co-hosted by the HD Centre and the Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation."

    Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD Centre)

    • United Nations (UN)
    • African Union (AU)
    • Peace-building
    • War
    • War--Prevention
    • Dispute resolution (Law)
    34 pages

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