The Fragility of Peace and Unsuccessful Negotiated Settlements: A Look at Five Reasons, Study notes of Sociology

Download The Fragility of Peace and Unsuccessful Negotiated Settlements: A Look at Five Reasons and more Study notes Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! Overheads Why is peace fragile and the negotiated settlements mostly unsuccessful? See INCORE web site, based at the University of Ulster, which has a record of all peace agreements and their iterations. Peace processes are universally fragile affairs, rarely prospering over the long term without active public support. It was once estimated that of 110 armed conflicts between 1989-99, only 21 were ended by peace agreements and only a minority of these survived. Five reasons for this fragility: • No civil society to provide space and resources for peacemaking and compromise • Some kinds of post violence society are insecure (those with territorial integrity, relational distance and cultural capital) • The destabilising effects of on-going violence • The psychological costs of peace • The narrow focus on governance reform Civil society destroyed. It is not just that the enmity may be stronger where the communal violence has been most barbaric, the resources and skills needed for peacemaking may have been decimated in the slaughter. Whatever enthusiasm there might be at the grassroots for peace, will not be harnessed and made more effective by the skills, resources and international networks of civil society. docsity.com