Case Studies: Strategies for Inclusion
This theme focuses on how marginalized groups access the potential entry points of the post-agreement context. Centrally we ask: what types of strategies in peace processes have proved effective in opening up the political settlement to a range of actors, and have these efforts stabilised or de-stabilised the peace settlement? More…
The case studies are used to explore the questions from across the other themes. However, we are particularly interested to know:
How do marginalised groups access the potential entry points of the post-agreement context (what we are terming the ‘formalised political unsettlement’):
- how do commitments to group inclusion open up opportunitites for broader equality claims to ‘piggy back’ on these commitments, and successfully press for broader forms of political equality?
- how do moments of sudden political change enable issues of marginalisation to be addressed which have not been adequately taken up during the formal negotiation process;
- in what ways do international norms have a heightened importance post-agreement, and how do local actors use them to leverage inclusion agendas? and
- when and how were groups empowered to ‘take back control’ of the state, destroying the shared arrangements of peace agreements, what role did moments of crisis play?
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: the Nepal Peace Process
Incremental Peace in Afghanistan
