Journal: CSS Mediation Resources

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Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich

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  • Cyber Ceasefires: Incorporating Restraints on Offensive Cyber Operations in Agreements to Stop Armed Conflict
    Item type: Other Publication
    Kane, Sean; Clayton, Govinda Daniel (2021)
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    There is a growing convergence between offensive cyber capabilities and physical warfare. Yet despite the increased use of offensive cyber capabilities in armed conflict, there does not yet exist any guidance for peace practitioners on if, or how, peace processes may need to evolve with this trend. This study represents one of the first attempts to address this gap, focusing specifically on how developments in offensive cyber capabilities might impact efforts to negotiate and implement ceasefires. It also sets out and analyzes possible adaptations and responses.
  • Peace Agreements and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR): Insights from the Central African Republic and Libya
    Item type: Other Publication
    Rusch, Silke (2021)
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    Based on first-hand field experience with the UN in Africa, this study analyzes how third parties engage armed groups in the negotiation and implementation of peace agreements that include DDR provisions. The study specifically focuses on this question in extremely fragile contexts, where the state’s institutions are weak and non-state armed groups control large territories and natural resources. Examples include the Central African Republic and Libya. The study also explores ways forward, highlighting the need for contextualized and inclusive negotiations along with the development of governance capacity linking the local and national level.
  • Inside the box: Using integrative simulations to teach conflict, negotiation and mediation
    Item type: Report
    Gill, Natasha (2015)
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  • Swiss Civilian Peace Promotion: Assessing Policy and Practice
    Item type: Report
    Greminger, Thomas (2011)
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    This article by Ambassador Thomas Greminger, former Head of the Political Affairs Division IV, provides a comprehensive assessment of the Swiss civilian peace promotion efforts of the past five years. Switzerland is a key actor in the field of peace promotion and human rights. This is based on Switzerland's humanitarian values, but it can also be seen as an expression of interest-driven politics. The international community expects a wealthy country that benefits greatly from globalization to make an adequate contribution to resolving global issues. This study is a special offprint of the CSS publication Switzerland's Civilian Peace Support: Inventory and Development Potential (Zivile Friedensförderung der Schweiz: Bestandesaufnahme und Entwicklungspotenzial, Zurich Contributions to Security Policy No. 83).
  • Peace agreement provisions and the durability of peace
    Item type: Report
    Kane, Sean (2019)
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    This study analyzes empirical research on the relationship between the content of negotiated civil war peace agreements and the subsequent duration of peace. It focuses specifically upon quantitative studies that apply statistical techniques to analyze databases containing decades of civil war peace agreements. This is a research area of direct practical relevance to mediators, who can and do influence the design of peace agreements by introducing options from comparative cases. Due to a general lack of familiarity among mediation practitioners with quantitative methods, lessons from this area of research may so far be underutilized as compared to case study and other more qualitative methods.
  • Addressing religion in conflict: Insights and case studies from Myanmar
    Item type: Report
    Ullmann, Angela; Mai Aung, Seng (2018)
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    Peaceful coexistence between groups belonging to different religious traditions is under pressure in Myanmar today. Despite this, various peacebuilding initiatives aimed at addressing issues that involve interfaith or intercommunal relations and peaceful coexistence between religious communities in Myanmar exist. This article looks at what Myanmar and international peace practitioners and policy makers can learn from selected initiatives addressing intercommunal relations in Myanmar after the violent incidents of 2012. Key insights are drawn from three case studies. First, is the insight that there are a diversity of approaches to address religion in conflict and it is important to match one’s approach according to what is driving the conflict, rather than using interfaith exchange as a panacea for religion in conflict. Second, the religious identity of peace practitioners impacts their scope of engagement, which makes working in religiously and culturally balanced teams, as well as working together with insider peacebuilders all the more important. Third, religion can play the role of a divider and a connector across local, national and international system boundaries. Even if a practitioner focuses on one arena, religion’s transboundary nature has implications for process design and needs to be dealt with consciously. A shorter version of this paper - including chapters 1,4 and 8 - has been published in: Ullmann, Angela, & Seng Mai Aung (2017). Addressing Religion in Conflict. Insights from Myanmar. Journal of Human Rights and Peace Studies, 3(2), pp. 129 – 158, ISSN 2465 – 4183.
  • Mapping mediators: A comparison of third parties and implications for Switzerland
    Item type: Report
    Mason, Simon Jonas Augusto; Sguaitamatti, Damiano A. (2011)
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  • Preventing violence: Community-based approaches to early warning and early response
    Item type: Report
    Leach, Steven (2016)
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  • Inviting the Elephant into the Room: Culturally Oriented Mediation and Peace Practice
    Item type: Report
    Abatis, Katrina (2021)
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    For a long time, peacebuilding has focused on international actors building social cohesion in mostly non-Western countries following violent conflict, rather than thinking about problems at home. Yet structural inequalities exist throughout the world and conflicts are one result of this. This study by Katrina Abatis turns the spotlight onto the United Kingdom where growing polarization threatens to undermine past social integration strategies and the population increasingly questions established institutions. Societies across the world are becoming more polarized and divisive politics feeds on people’s underlying fears. Culture is often invisible to conflict parties who can only view the world with their own lens, thus value clashes can seem insurmountable.
  • Mediating security arrangements in peace processes: Critical perspectives from the field
    Item type: Report
    Brickhill, Jeremy (2018)
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    This booklet provides an introductory understanding of mediating and implementing security arrangements in peace processes, and the tools, concepts and mechanisms available to manage security transitions. It demystifies the security and military aspects of peace processes so as to enable these critical elements to be fully integrated into mediation and peace-building strategies. It outlines a logical and strategic map of security transitions from war to peace and how to avoid some of the recurring mistakes of security arrangements in peace processes.
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