One of the common arguments against negotiating with the Taliban is that the group is not sincere in its efforts.
Tag: peace processes
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Eva Smets, Executive Director of Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, discusses ways of ensuring peace agreements focus on the protection of children.
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The patrols are meant to be a key step toward the goal of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration—in other words, they should convince people to set down their weapons and pursue peace.
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Bringing more parties on board has been a challenge during both the negotiation and implementation of the peace agreement.
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The only element of the agreements that was not adapted, clarified, or modified in response to opposition was the provision for FARC members to participate in politics, even as former rebels can be regarded as a risk in this capacity.
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It is now crucial for Colombia to learn from other experiences what can be done to save the peace process.
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After decades of civil war, displacement, land seizures, discrimination, and poverty, the challenges facing Myanmar are both large-scale and complex.
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There is no other peace process in the world in which victims have occupied such a central role as they have in Colombia.
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With the failure of the peace agreement struck in New York, an arms embargo may finally be possible, as the lowest common denominator the UN Security Council can agree on for South Sudan.
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The agreement, it is important to note, goes to great lengths to avoid mistakes committed in previous peace processes, in particular those of the last negotiations with the FARC, which took place in El Caguán, Colombia, between 1998 and 2002.