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Experts on nonviolent peacekeeping presented their methodologies, lessons learned, and the way forward for the innovative field at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) on March 21, 2012. Countries: Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nepal, Syria
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Mediation and Facilitation
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Peacebuilding operations in conflict and post-conflict societies often undermine local capacity, ownership, and sustainability. The acknowledged remedy is to empower local actors to take the lead in planning and implementing programs, but few empowerment strategies that work in practice have been documented and explained. Countries: Afghanistan, Burundi, Guatemala, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Mediation and Facilitation, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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Customary Justice and the Rule of Law in War-Torn Societies presents seven in-depth case studies that take a broad interdisciplinary approach to the study of the justice system. Moving beyond the narrow lens of legal analysis, the cases—Mozambique, Guatemala, East Timor, Afghanistan, Liberia, Iraq, Sudan—examine the larger historical, political, and social factors that shape the character and role of customary justice systems and their place in the overall justice sector. Countries: Afghanistan, Guatemala, Iraq, Liberia, Mozambique, South Sudan, Sudan, The Two Sudans, Timor Leste
| Issue Areas: Economics and Conflict, Rule of Law, Security Sector Reform/Governance
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In Negotiating Peace and Confronting Corruption, Bertram Spector argues that the peace negotiation table is the best place to lay the groundwork for good governance. Countries: Burundi, El Salvador, Guatemala, Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone
| Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Security Sector Reform/Governance
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In Constructing Justice and Security after War, the distinguished contributors—including scholars, criminal justice practitioners, and former senior officials of international missions—examine the experiences of countries that have recently undergone transitions from conflict with significant international involvement. The volume offers generalizations based on careful comparisons of justice and security reforms in some of the most prominent and successful cases of transitions from war of the 1990s drawn from Central America, Africa, the Balkans, and East Timor. Countries: Africa, Bosnia-Herzegovina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Timor Leste
| Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Rule of Law, Security Sector Reform/Governance
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Countries: Guatemala
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Truth Commission: Commission for Historical Clarification |