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Implementing Negotiated Agreements: The Real Challenge to Intrastate Peace

Implementing Negotiated Agreements: The Real Challenge to Intrastate Peace International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 18 (2011) 115–121 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI 10.1163/157181111X551003 brill.nl/ijgr Recent Books on Human Rights and Groups Book Reviews Miek Boltjes (ed.), Implementing Negotiated Agreements: Th e Real Challenge to Intrastate Peace , Kreddha Europe, TMC Asser Press, Th e Hague, Th e Netherlands, 2007. ISBN: 9789067042406; price: GBP 73. Th is edited collection speaks to an important gap in current thinking with rela- tion to intrastate confl ict. With negotiated agreement playing a central role in ending such confl ict, remarkably little work exists systematically examining when and why such negotiated agreements are implemented. As the book’s title sug- gests peace agreements often mark the start of a diffi cult process of implementa- tion, rather than a clean end to confl ict. Th e heady days of the early 1990s, when a public handshake between erstwhile enemies waving a peace agreement in front of international media was understood to mark the end of a confl ict, are fi rmly over. In fact, this is perhaps the era of scepticism over peace agreements: peace processes produce multiple peace agreements as later agreements are required to implement earlier ones, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal on Minority and Group Rights Brill

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Brill
Copyright
© 2011 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1385-4879
eISSN
1571-8115
DOI
10.1163/157181111X551003
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Abstract

International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 18 (2011) 115–121 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI 10.1163/157181111X551003 brill.nl/ijgr Recent Books on Human Rights and Groups Book Reviews Miek Boltjes (ed.), Implementing Negotiated Agreements: Th e Real Challenge to Intrastate Peace , Kreddha Europe, TMC Asser Press, Th e Hague, Th e Netherlands, 2007. ISBN: 9789067042406; price: GBP 73. Th is edited collection speaks to an important gap in current thinking with rela- tion to intrastate confl ict. With negotiated agreement playing a central role in ending such confl ict, remarkably little work exists systematically examining when and why such negotiated agreements are implemented. As the book’s title sug- gests peace agreements often mark the start of a diffi cult process of implementa- tion, rather than a clean end to confl ict. Th e heady days of the early 1990s, when a public handshake between erstwhile enemies waving a peace agreement in front of international media was understood to mark the end of a confl ict, are fi rmly over. In fact, this is perhaps the era of scepticism over peace agreements: peace processes produce multiple peace agreements as later agreements are required to implement earlier ones, and

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International Journal on Minority and Group RightsBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2011

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