Mechanisms to settle disputes arising in the implementation and operation of a political agreement can take various forms, depending on the specific purpose for which they are established.
Peace Processes
Mission (Im)Possible? UN Military Peacekeeping Operations in Civil Wars
Under what conditions can UN military peacekeeping operations (PKOs) succeed in contexts of civil war?
Subnational Governance and Conflict
The potential for subnational governance to serve as a catalyst of peace has been widely recognized. This is reflected...
The Dataset of Political Agreements in Internal Conflicts (PAIC)
This new dataset captures the institutional provisions in political agreements concluded between 1989 and 2016.
Predators and Peace: Explaining the Failure of the Pakistani Conflict Settlement Process in 2013-4
In this article in Civil Wars, my colleagues Talat Farooq, Scott Lucas, and I ask whether US drone strikes caused the unravelling of the Pakistani conflict settlement process between the government and the TTP in 2013-14. This has been a much-debated, yet so far...
Critical Concepts in Political Science: Ethnic Conflict
The study of ethnic conflict saw its heyday in the aftermath of the Cold War with a proliferation of theories about its causes and management. But its origins as a subject of academic inquiry not only predate the end of the Cold War but also its inception, with some...
The Dynamics of Emerging De-Facto States: Eastern Ukraine in the Post-Soviet Space
What are the causes and consequences of the crisis in Ukraine, and what has been the nature of local, national, and external actors’ involvement in it? These are the questions that my colleague Tetyana Malyarenko and I examine in this book which represents...
The Making of Peace: Processes and Agreements
This essay offers some insights into the general trends regarding the success or otherwise of contemporary peace processes and then focus on the centrality of the peace agreement to the peace process.
The logic of competitive influence-seeking: Russia, Ukraine, and the conflict in Donbas
In this article, published in Post-Soviet Affairs in 2018, my colleague Tatyana Malyarenko and I argue that the crisis in Ukraine since late 2013 has seen four successive internationally mediated agreements that have been at best partially implemented. Drawing on...