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| UNU Update The newsletter of United Nations University and its international network of affiliated institutes |
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Issue 6: January 2001 |
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The study and comparison of international peace agreements and peace processes provides a useful insight into the means by which several conflicts reached an accommodation in the 1990s. It has become increasingly common for actors in one peace process to borrow from the experiences of others. A clear trend towards internally agreed initiatives, rather than externally imposed settlements, is noticeable. Yet, the majority of peace accords fail. Often, peace accords fail to anticipate post-conflict problems, or are regarded as a staging post in the conflict. The Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, a joint project of the UN University and the University of Ulster, this month launched a redesigned and expanded Peace Agreements section on its Internet website. Featured agreements, available in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format, include those concluded in Afghanistan, Angola, Georgia, Guatemala, Israel, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Philippines, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tajikistan and Western Sahara.
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