Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- 1 Building Peace in the Era of Three Waves
- 2 The Problem of Peace: Understanding the ‘Liberal Peace’
- 3 Pre-emptive Self-defence New Legal Principle or Political Action?
- 4 Beyond Criminal Justice: Promoting the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Societies
- 5 Peace by Pact: Data on the Implementation of Peace Agreements
- 6 Refugee Repatriation as a Necessary Condition for Peace
- 7 Catapulting Conflicts or Propelling Peace: Diasporas and Civil Wars
- 8 UN Peace Operations as Norm Entrepreneurs: The Challenge of Achieving Communicative Action on Human Rights
- 9 To Practice What They Preach: International Transitional Administrations and the Paradox of Norm Promotion
- 10 Re-examining the Roots of War in West Africa in a Globalizing World
- 11 The African Union (AU) and Its Commitment to Non-Indifference: Can the AU be an Actor for the Promotion of Human Security?
- 12 Hamas Between Sharia Rule and Demo-Islam
- 13 Environmental Scarcity and Intrastate Conflicts: The Case of Nepal
- 14 Narcotics: The New Security Threat for China
- References
- Bibliography
5 - Peace by Pact: Data on the Implementation of Peace Agreements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- 1 Building Peace in the Era of Three Waves
- 2 The Problem of Peace: Understanding the ‘Liberal Peace’
- 3 Pre-emptive Self-defence New Legal Principle or Political Action?
- 4 Beyond Criminal Justice: Promoting the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Societies
- 5 Peace by Pact: Data on the Implementation of Peace Agreements
- 6 Refugee Repatriation as a Necessary Condition for Peace
- 7 Catapulting Conflicts or Propelling Peace: Diasporas and Civil Wars
- 8 UN Peace Operations as Norm Entrepreneurs: The Challenge of Achieving Communicative Action on Human Rights
- 9 To Practice What They Preach: International Transitional Administrations and the Paradox of Norm Promotion
- 10 Re-examining the Roots of War in West Africa in a Globalizing World
- 11 The African Union (AU) and Its Commitment to Non-Indifference: Can the AU be an Actor for the Promotion of Human Security?
- 12 Hamas Between Sharia Rule and Demo-Islam
- 13 Environmental Scarcity and Intrastate Conflicts: The Case of Nepal
- 14 Narcotics: The New Security Threat for China
- References
- Bibliography
Summary
Introduction
Is the implementation of a peace agreement a severe obstacle for peace? Conventional wisdom holds that the failure to implement peace agreements is an important explanation of the recurrence of war. Much scholarly work has been devoted to how the design of peace agreements can pave the way for peace. In this regard, power sharing is seen as a viable solution to end civil war. Agreement on the sharing of power is a concession by warring parties that can be seen as a sign of credible commitment. Such concessions often entail compromises on how political, territorial and military power is to be shared or divided in a future form of governance. However, the implementation of such power-sharing pacts has only to a limited extent been the focus of quantitative analysis. This chapter presents new data, namely the IMPACT dataset, to fill up this empirical deficit within the literature on post-civil conflict settlements. The IMPACT dataset contains data on internal armed conflict settlement provisions in 83 peace agreements struck in the period of 1989–2004. It includes data on the most important components of a peace agreement, with regard to the contested incompatibilities, namely political, military and territorial pacts. Furthermore, it includes unique data on to what degree such pacts were implemented following the signing of a peace agreement.
The chapter is structured in the following way. We begin by discussing literature on durable peace and peace agreements, and formulate four expectations based on this research.
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