Christine Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3606438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0233-4410 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 283 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Disaggregated mediation: The Localisation of Peace Processes Amid Global and Domestic Fragmentation
In recent years, comprehensive peace agreements have reduced in frequency, and international mediation initiatives have become ‘disaggregated’ focused on brokering localised, sub-state dialogue processes, with issue-specific discussions, alongside attempts at national-level processes. This article focuses on three aspects of this shift: it (a) proposes disaggregated mediation as a conceptual framework to understand these processes, (b) outlines d…
PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End Wars
The purpose of this Open Access book is to examine how technology is transforming the business of peacekeeping
Ways of seeing: Peace process data-viz as a research practice
This article uses John Berger’s idea (1972) that images are connected to ‘ways of seeing’ to reflect on the creation of interactive visualizations of peace agreement and peace process data. We reflect on three visualizations created during a three-year long collaboration. We first describe our data, the peacebuilding ambitions for its use, and why we produced interactive forms of visualization. Second, we describe how the process of producing the…
The Spaces of Local Agreements: Towards a New Imaginary of the Peace Process
This article examines when, how and why local agreements are used to end violent conflict, drawing on a new global dataset of local agreements. It provides a typology of security functions that local agreements deliver at different stages of the conflict-to-peace cycle, and the types of space they address and create. It examines the relationship of local agreements to national peacemaking processes, arguing that they reveal the nested nature of l…
Introducing PA-X: A new peace agreement database and dataset
This article introduces PA-X, a peace agreement database designed to improve understanding of negotiated pathways out of conflict. PA-X enables scholars, mediators, conflict parties and civil society actors to systematically compare how peace and transition processes formalize negotiated commitments in an attempt to move towards peace. PA-X provides an archive and comprehensive census of peace agreements using a broad definition to capture agreem…
Power-Sharing, Conflict Resolution, and Women: A Global Reappraisal
Peace processes in intrastate conflict have, since 1990, overwhelmingly institutionalized compromises between contenders for power in the form of power-sharing arrangements. This article focuses on political power-sharing, drawing qualitatively on a global data-set of peace agreements (PA-X, Peace Agreement Database). It argues that peace agreements indicate three main functions for political power-sharing: permanent group accommodation, equitabl…
Women, Peace Negotiations, and Peace Agreements
Peace agreements, seeking to end conflict and establish a road map for the future, have significant effects on women’s lives, yet historically women have been absent from peace processes. This chapter examines obstacles that often limit women’s involvement in peace negotiations, despite the creation of an international framework that supports the inclusion of women in such processes. The chapter reviews the pragmatic opportunities and challenges …
Navigating Inclusion in Transitions from Conflict: The Formalised Political Un settlement
The project of ensuring that political settlements are inclusive is key to attempts to navigate transitions from conflict over the last quarter of a century or so. Examining such transitions, we point to the emergence of the ‘formalised political unsettlement’ as a persistent outcome. The formalised political unsettlement translates the disagreement at the heart of the conflict into a set of political and legal institutions for continuing negotia…
Introduction: Bargaining on constitutions – Political settlements and constitutional state-building
This article considers the relationship between constitutions and political settlements and locates the special issue articles within this wider discussion. The article points to the apparently paradoxical connection between disillusionment with internationalised state-building techniques on one hand, and increased international faith in constitution-making as a state-building tool on the other. Using understandings of the relationship of the con…
Peace Settlements and Human Rights: A Post-Cold War Circular History
Journal Article Peace Settlements and Human Rights: A Post-Cold War Circular History Get access Christine Bell Christine Bell The author ([email protected]) is Assistant Principal (Global Justice), and Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Edinburgh. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 9, Issue 3, November 2017, Pages 358–378, https://doi.org/10.109…
Lex Pacificatoria Colombiana: Colombia's Peace Accord in Comparative Perspective
In this short piece, I open a conversation over how the Colombian Final Peace Accord provides evidence of, and a contribution to, a more generallex pacificatoriaor "law of the peacemakers" (lex paxfor short). In light of the Accord's recent ballot defeat, I integrate into this assessment the merits of using a referendum to approve (in Colombia's case "affirm or deny") the Agreement as a whole. Throughout, I draw on a peace agreement database whic…
Power-sharing and human rights law
This article maps international human rights jurisprudence relating to the compatibility of power-sharing arrangements with human rights law. This mapping reveals a growing jurisprudence but one that appears piecemeal and internally inconsistent. The article suggests that human rights jurisprudence on power-sharing has varied over time, but also, by region, by group addressed, and according to the perceived purpose of the power-sharing mechanism.…
Peace Agreements or Pieces of Paper? The Impact of Unsc Resolution 1325 on Peace Processes and Their Agreements
On the 31 October 2000 UNSC Resolution 1325 was adopted. The resolution provided for a range of measures aimed at the inclusion of women in the prevention, management and resolution of conflict. In particular, several of the resolution's provisions addressed the role of women and gender in peace negotiations and agreements. This article examines whether and how Resolution 1325 has impacted on the drafting of peace agreements. We analyse explicit …
Malaria control in the municipality of San Esteban, Honduras
Malaria is ongoing in San Esteban, with increased incidence in children. We recommend increased availability and promotion of insecticide-treated bed nets, improved timing and coverage of indoor residual spraying, and improved community malaria practices through education sessions
Hospitalized HIV-Infected Patients in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
We interviewed 1038 HIV-positive inpatients in public hospitals in Miami, Florida, and Atlanta, Georgia, to examine patient factors associated with use of HIV care, use of antiretroviral therapy, and unprotected sexual intercourse. Multivariate analyses and multiple logistic regression models showed that use of crack cocaine and heavy drinking were associated with never having had an HIV-care provider, high-risk sexual behavior, and not receiving…
Transitional Justice, Interdisciplinarity and the State of the 'Field' or 'Non-Field
Transitional justice appears to be an established field of scholarship connected to a field of practice on how to deal with past human rights abuses in societies in transition. The original focus of transitional justice discourse was that human rights law requires accountability in transitions, rooted in the discipline of law. Over time, this focus has been expanded to include a much broader range of mechanisms, goals and inquiries across a range…
Does Feminism Need a Theory of Transitional Justice? An Introductory Essay
This essay surveys feminist scholarship and praxis on transitional justice, examining its ongoing contribution to the conceptualization and design of transitional justice mechanisms. We examine some of the gender implications of a specifically ‘transitional’ theory of justice. The essay concludes by proposing that feminist theory should focus on how transitional justice debates help or hinder broader projects of securing material gains for women …
Liberal Multiculturalism’ and the Limits of International Law
Kymlicka's book tells a story of international law. It tells of how international legal developments in the area of minority rights and indigenous peoples and racial minorities constitute a process
Transitional justice: (Re)conceptualising the Field
Transitional justice discourse is generally accepted as having its foundations located in the theoretical, policy and practical implications of dealing with past human rights violations in societies that have experienced either repressive politics or violent conflict. Many theorists and policy-makers resolutely assume or defend the notion that ‘dealing with the past’ is where the debates about, and contribution of, the transitional justice paradi…
The People's Peace? Peace Agreements, Civil Society, and Participatory Democracy
This article, drawing on an extensive collection of peace agreements dating from 1990 until the present day, analyzes peace agreement provisions for civil society involvement and considers the extent to which peace agreements proffer new models of participatory democracy. We begin with some background and a short overview of political theory on participatory democracy, identifying key dilemmas. The body of the article sets out a comprehensive ana…
Peace Agreements: Their Nature and Legal Status
The last fifteen years have seen a proliferation of peace agreements. Some 50 percent of civil wars have terminated in peace agreements since 1990, more than in the previous two centuries combined, when only one in five resulted in negotiated settlement. Numerically, these settlements amount to over three hundred peace agreements in some forty jurisdictions. International standards have even begun to regulate peace agreements. United Nations guid…
Lost on the Way Home? The Right to Life in Northern Ireland
This article starts from the premise that, through the Belfast Agreement, the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) was invested with a ‘transitional justice’ function in Northern Ireland, unlike in the rest of the United Kingdom. The article evaluates how far the HRA has met this challenge by examining a case study of the right to life. The European Court's development of a procedural aspect to the right to life in the form of a right to an effective inve…
Justice Discourses in Transition
This article asserts that ‘transitional justice’ analyses provide important tools in understanding how societies emerge from violent politics. It argues for a conception of transitional justice that goes beyond the question of dealing with the legacy of past human rights violations; rather, its focus is on a range of inter-related dilemmas relating to the role of law in transitional societies. Specifically, the article explores the pivotal and pa…
Peace Agreements and Human Rights
1. Introduction 2. Peace processes, Peace Agreements, and Human Rights: What are They? 3. From Conflict to Peace? South Africa and Northern Ireland 4. From Conflict to Peace: Israel/Palestine and Bosnia-Herzegovina 5. Getting to Yes? negotiating Self-Determination 6. But What was the Question? Evaluating the Deal 7. Building for the Future: Human Rights Institutions 8. Undoing the Past: Refugees, Land, and Possession 9. Dealing with the Past: Pri…
The Enduring Controversy: Developments in Affirmative Action Law in North America
This article seeks to examine the current state of the law on affirmative action in the United States and Canada. Drawing upon developments at both a statutory and constitutional level it considers to what extent the law permits or requires measures to alter the composition of institutions to make them more representative in terms of race or gender. Its primary focus is on employment. It argues that constitutional provisions and judicial interpre…
Peace Agreements or Pieces of Paper? The Impact of Unsc Resolution 1325 on Peace Processes and Their Agreements
On the 31 October 2000 UNSC Resolution 1325 was adopted. The resolution provided for a range of measures aimed at the inclusion of women in the prevention, management and resolution of conflict. In particular, several of the resolution's provisions addressed the role of women and gender in peace negotiations and agreements. This article examines whether and how Resolution 1325 has impacted on the drafting of peace agreements. We analyse explicit …
Peace Agreements: Their Nature and Legal Status
The last fifteen years have seen a proliferation of peace agreements. Some 50 percent of civil wars have terminated in peace agreements since 1990, more than in the previous two centuries combined, when only one in five resulted in negotiated settlement. Numerically, these settlements amount to over three hundred peace agreements in some forty jurisdictions. International standards have even begun to regulate peace agreements. United Nations guid…
The People's Peace? Peace Agreements, Civil Society, and Participatory Democracy
This article, drawing on an extensive collection of peace agreements dating from 1990 until the present day, analyzes peace agreement provisions for civil society involvement and considers the extent to which peace agreements proffer new models of participatory democracy. We begin with some background and a short overview of political theory on participatory democracy, identifying key dilemmas. The body of the article sets out a comprehensive ana…
Transitional Justice, Interdisciplinarity and the State of the 'Field' or 'Non-Field
Transitional justice appears to be an established field of scholarship connected to a field of practice on how to deal with past human rights abuses in societies in transition. The original focus of transitional justice discourse was that human rights law requires accountability in transitions, rooted in the discipline of law. Over time, this focus has been expanded to include a much broader range of mechanisms, goals and inquiries across a range…
Introducing PA-X: A new peace agreement database and dataset
This article introduces PA-X, a peace agreement database designed to improve understanding of negotiated pathways out of conflict. PA-X enables scholars, mediators, conflict parties and civil society actors to systematically compare how peace and transition processes formalize negotiated commitments in an attempt to move towards peace. PA-X provides an archive and comprehensive census of peace agreements using a broad definition to capture agreem…
Justice Discourses in Transition
This article asserts that ‘transitional justice’ analyses provide important tools in understanding how societies emerge from violent politics. It argues for a conception of transitional justice that goes beyond the question of dealing with the legacy of past human rights violations; rather, its focus is on a range of inter-related dilemmas relating to the role of law in transitional societies. Specifically, the article explores the pivotal and pa…
Does Feminism Need a Theory of Transitional Justice? An Introductory Essay
This essay surveys feminist scholarship and praxis on transitional justice, examining its ongoing contribution to the conceptualization and design of transitional justice mechanisms. We examine some of the gender implications of a specifically ‘transitional’ theory of justice. The essay concludes by proposing that feminist theory should focus on how transitional justice debates help or hinder broader projects of securing material gains for women …
The Spaces of Local Agreements: Towards a New Imaginary of the Peace Process
This article examines when, how and why local agreements are used to end violent conflict, drawing on a new global dataset of local agreements. It provides a typology of security functions that local agreements deliver at different stages of the conflict-to-peace cycle, and the types of space they address and create. It examines the relationship of local agreements to national peacemaking processes, arguing that they reveal the nested nature of l…
Power-Sharing, Conflict Resolution, and Women: A Global Reappraisal
Peace processes in intrastate conflict have, since 1990, overwhelmingly institutionalized compromises between contenders for power in the form of power-sharing arrangements. This article focuses on political power-sharing, drawing qualitatively on a global data-set of peace agreements (PA-X, Peace Agreement Database). It argues that peace agreements indicate three main functions for political power-sharing: permanent group accommodation, equitabl…
Telling Stories of Women Who Kill
Transitional justice: (Re)conceptualising the Field
Transitional justice discourse is generally accepted as having its foundations located in the theoretical, policy and practical implications of dealing with past human rights violations in societies that have experienced either repressive politics or violent conflict. Many theorists and policy-makers resolutely assume or defend the notion that ‘dealing with the past’ is where the debates about, and contribution of, the transitional justice paradi…
Introduction: Bargaining on constitutions – Political settlements and constitutional state-building
This article considers the relationship between constitutions and political settlements and locates the special issue articles within this wider discussion. The article points to the apparently paradoxical connection between disillusionment with internationalised state-building techniques on one hand, and increased international faith in constitution-making as a state-building tool on the other. Using understandings of the relationship of the con…
Peace Settlements and Human Rights: A Post-Cold War Circular History
Journal Article Peace Settlements and Human Rights: A Post-Cold War Circular History Get access Christine Bell Christine Bell The author ([email protected]) is Assistant Principal (Global Justice), and Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Edinburgh. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 9, Issue 3, November 2017, Pages 358–378, https://doi.org/10.109…
Power-sharing and human rights law
This article maps international human rights jurisprudence relating to the compatibility of power-sharing arrangements with human rights law. This mapping reveals a growing jurisprudence but one that appears piecemeal and internally inconsistent. The article suggests that human rights jurisprudence on power-sharing has varied over time, but also, by region, by group addressed, and according to the perceived purpose of the power-sharing mechanism.…
Disaggregated mediation: The Localisation of Peace Processes Amid Global and Domestic Fragmentation
In recent years, comprehensive peace agreements have reduced in frequency, and international mediation initiatives have become ‘disaggregated’ focused on brokering localised, sub-state dialogue processes, with issue-specific discussions, alongside attempts at national-level processes. This article focuses on three aspects of this shift: it (a) proposes disaggregated mediation as a conceptual framework to understand these processes, (b) outlines d…
Lex Pacificatoria Colombiana: Colombia's Peace Accord in Comparative Perspective
In this short piece, I open a conversation over how the Colombian Final Peace Accord provides evidence of, and a contribution to, a more generallex pacificatoriaor "law of the peacemakers" (lex paxfor short). In light of the Accord's recent ballot defeat, I integrate into this assessment the merits of using a referendum to approve (in Colombia's case "affirm or deny") the Agreement as a whole. Throughout, I draw on a peace agreement database whic…
Hospitalized HIV-Infected Patients in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
We interviewed 1038 HIV-positive inpatients in public hospitals in Miami, Florida, and Atlanta, Georgia, to examine patient factors associated with use of HIV care, use of antiretroviral therapy, and unprotected sexual intercourse. Multivariate analyses and multiple logistic regression models showed that use of crack cocaine and heavy drinking were associated with never having had an HIV-care provider, high-risk sexual behavior, and not receiving…
Patchwork Quilt
The Enduring Controversy: Developments in Affirmative Action Law in North America
This article seeks to examine the current state of the law on affirmative action in the United States and Canada. Drawing upon developments at both a statutory and constitutional level it considers to what extent the law permits or requires measures to alter the composition of institutions to make them more representative in terms of race or gender. Its primary focus is on employment. It argues that constitutional provisions and judicial interpre…
The Employment Equality Review And Fair Employment in Northern Ireland
This article examines the process of the Employment Equality Review of the Northern Ireland Fair Employment legislation currently being undertaken by the Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights. The article suggests key issues to be undertaken by the review both in terms of its processes and also in terms of the legislation's weaknesses. Specifically the article addresses affirmative action, contract compliance and several of the legislation…
Telling Stories of Women Who Kill
Peace Agreements and Human Rights
1. Introduction 2. Peace processes, Peace Agreements, and Human Rights: What are They? 3. From Conflict to Peace? South Africa and Northern Ireland 4. From Conflict to Peace: Israel/Palestine and Bosnia-Herzegovina 5. Getting to Yes? negotiating Self-Determination 6. But What was the Question? Evaluating the Deal 7. Building for the Future: Human Rights Institutions 8. Undoing the Past: Refugees, Land, and Possession 9. Dealing with the Past: Pri…
Justice Discourses in Transition
This article asserts that ‘transitional justice’ analyses provide important tools in understanding how societies emerge from violent politics. It argues for a conception of transitional justice that goes beyond the question of dealing with the legacy of past human rights violations; rather, its focus is on a range of inter-related dilemmas relating to the role of law in transitional societies. Specifically, the article explores the pivotal and pa…
Lost on the Way Home? The Right to Life in Northern Ireland
This article starts from the premise that, through the Belfast Agreement, the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) was invested with a ‘transitional justice’ function in Northern Ireland, unlike in the rest of the United Kingdom. The article evaluates how far the HRA has met this challenge by examining a case study of the right to life. The European Court's development of a procedural aspect to the right to life in the form of a right to an effective inve…
Peace Agreements: Their Nature and Legal Status
The last fifteen years have seen a proliferation of peace agreements. Some 50 percent of civil wars have terminated in peace agreements since 1990, more than in the previous two centuries combined, when only one in five resulted in negotiated settlement. Numerically, these settlements amount to over three hundred peace agreements in some forty jurisdictions. International standards have even begun to regulate peace agreements. United Nations guid…
Does Feminism Need a Theory of Transitional Justice? An Introductory Essay
This essay surveys feminist scholarship and praxis on transitional justice, examining its ongoing contribution to the conceptualization and design of transitional justice mechanisms. We examine some of the gender implications of a specifically ‘transitional’ theory of justice. The essay concludes by proposing that feminist theory should focus on how transitional justice debates help or hinder broader projects of securing material gains for women …
Liberal Multiculturalism’ and the Limits of International Law
Kymlicka's book tells a story of international law. It tells of how international legal developments in the area of minority rights and indigenous peoples and racial minorities constitute a process
Transitional justice: (Re)conceptualising the Field
Transitional justice discourse is generally accepted as having its foundations located in the theoretical, policy and practical implications of dealing with past human rights violations in societies that have experienced either repressive politics or violent conflict. Many theorists and policy-makers resolutely assume or defend the notion that ‘dealing with the past’ is where the debates about, and contribution of, the transitional justice paradi…
The People's Peace? Peace Agreements, Civil Society, and Participatory Democracy
This article, drawing on an extensive collection of peace agreements dating from 1990 until the present day, analyzes peace agreement provisions for civil society involvement and considers the extent to which peace agreements proffer new models of participatory democracy. We begin with some background and a short overview of political theory on participatory democracy, identifying key dilemmas. The body of the article sets out a comprehensive ana…
Transitional Justice, Interdisciplinarity and the State of the 'Field' or 'Non-Field
Transitional justice appears to be an established field of scholarship connected to a field of practice on how to deal with past human rights abuses in societies in transition. The original focus of transitional justice discourse was that human rights law requires accountability in transitions, rooted in the discipline of law. Over time, this focus has been expanded to include a much broader range of mechanisms, goals and inquiries across a range…
Malaria control in the municipality of San Esteban, Honduras
Malaria is ongoing in San Esteban, with increased incidence in children. We recommend increased availability and promotion of insecticide-treated bed nets, improved timing and coverage of indoor residual spraying, and improved community malaria practices through education sessions
Hospitalized HIV-Infected Patients in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
We interviewed 1038 HIV-positive inpatients in public hospitals in Miami, Florida, and Atlanta, Georgia, to examine patient factors associated with use of HIV care, use of antiretroviral therapy, and unprotected sexual intercourse. Multivariate analyses and multiple logistic regression models showed that use of crack cocaine and heavy drinking were associated with never having had an HIV-care provider, high-risk sexual behavior, and not receiving…
Peace Agreements or Pieces of Paper? The Impact of Unsc Resolution 1325 on Peace Processes and Their Agreements
On the 31 October 2000 UNSC Resolution 1325 was adopted. The resolution provided for a range of measures aimed at the inclusion of women in the prevention, management and resolution of conflict. In particular, several of the resolution's provisions addressed the role of women and gender in peace negotiations and agreements. This article examines whether and how Resolution 1325 has impacted on the drafting of peace agreements. We analyse explicit …
Power-sharing and human rights law
This article maps international human rights jurisprudence relating to the compatibility of power-sharing arrangements with human rights law. This mapping reveals a growing jurisprudence but one that appears piecemeal and internally inconsistent. The article suggests that human rights jurisprudence on power-sharing has varied over time, but also, by region, by group addressed, and according to the perceived purpose of the power-sharing mechanism.…
Lex Pacificatoria Colombiana: Colombia's Peace Accord in Comparative Perspective
In this short piece, I open a conversation over how the Colombian Final Peace Accord provides evidence of, and a contribution to, a more generallex pacificatoriaor "law of the peacemakers" (lex paxfor short). In light of the Accord's recent ballot defeat, I integrate into this assessment the merits of using a referendum to approve (in Colombia's case "affirm or deny") the Agreement as a whole. Throughout, I draw on a peace agreement database whic…
Women, Peace Negotiations, and Peace Agreements
Peace agreements, seeking to end conflict and establish a road map for the future, have significant effects on women’s lives, yet historically women have been absent from peace processes. This chapter examines obstacles that often limit women’s involvement in peace negotiations, despite the creation of an international framework that supports the inclusion of women in such processes. The chapter reviews the pragmatic opportunities and challenges …
Navigating Inclusion in Transitions from Conflict: The Formalised Political Un settlement
The project of ensuring that political settlements are inclusive is key to attempts to navigate transitions from conflict over the last quarter of a century or so. Examining such transitions, we point to the emergence of the ‘formalised political unsettlement’ as a persistent outcome. The formalised political unsettlement translates the disagreement at the heart of the conflict into a set of political and legal institutions for continuing negotia…
Introduction: Bargaining on constitutions – Political settlements and constitutional state-building
This article considers the relationship between constitutions and political settlements and locates the special issue articles within this wider discussion. The article points to the apparently paradoxical connection between disillusionment with internationalised state-building techniques on one hand, and increased international faith in constitution-making as a state-building tool on the other. Using understandings of the relationship of the con…
Peace Settlements and Human Rights: A Post-Cold War Circular History
Journal Article Peace Settlements and Human Rights: A Post-Cold War Circular History Get access Christine Bell Christine Bell The author ([email protected]) is Assistant Principal (Global Justice), and Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Edinburgh. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 9, Issue 3, November 2017, Pages 358–378, https://doi.org/10.109…
Power-Sharing, Conflict Resolution, and Women: A Global Reappraisal
Peace processes in intrastate conflict have, since 1990, overwhelmingly institutionalized compromises between contenders for power in the form of power-sharing arrangements. This article focuses on political power-sharing, drawing qualitatively on a global data-set of peace agreements (PA-X, Peace Agreement Database). It argues that peace agreements indicate three main functions for political power-sharing: permanent group accommodation, equitabl…
Introducing PA-X: A new peace agreement database and dataset
This article introduces PA-X, a peace agreement database designed to improve understanding of negotiated pathways out of conflict. PA-X enables scholars, mediators, conflict parties and civil society actors to systematically compare how peace and transition processes formalize negotiated commitments in an attempt to move towards peace. PA-X provides an archive and comprehensive census of peace agreements using a broad definition to capture agreem…
Ways of seeing: Peace process data-viz as a research practice
This article uses John Berger’s idea (1972) that images are connected to ‘ways of seeing’ to reflect on the creation of interactive visualizations of peace agreement and peace process data. We reflect on three visualizations created during a three-year long collaboration. We first describe our data, the peacebuilding ambitions for its use, and why we produced interactive forms of visualization. Second, we describe how the process of producing the…
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