On 11 March 2016, I organised a workshop entitled Impossible Peace? Finding Solutions to the Most Challenging Intra-State Conflicts. This workshop brought together a range of excellent speakers to discuss what can be done to solve the most intractable, violent or otherwise challenging intra-state conflicts. The workshop report is available here: Workshop report – Impossible Peace
Programme:
Panel 1: Creating Conditions for Peace
Chair: Lars Waldorf (University of York)
- Alan Kuperman (University of Texas): Liberia: How Diplomacy & Intervention Ended a 13-Year Civil War
- Kristin Bakke (University College London): Challenges with fragmented insurgencies
- Andy Carl (Founder of Conciliation Resources): Over this mountain – another mountain? Reflections on 21yrs running Conciliation Resource
Panel 2: From Process to Outcome
Chair: Claire Smith (University of York)
- Jacob Eriksson (University of York): Mediation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a happy medium between facilitation and coercion
- Gëzim Visoka (Dublin City University): Neo-Functional Peace: The Interplay between the Technical and Political in the EU-facilitated Dialogue between Kosovo-Serbia
- Ciaran O’Toole (Conciliation Resources): Constitutional Development in Fiji: Lessons from the 2012 Process
Panel 3. Possible Solutions
Chair: Jacob Eriksson (University of York)
- Stefan Wolff & Argyro Kartsonaki (University of Birmingham): Fit for purpose? The Utility of Territorial Self-governance Mechanisms for Conflict Mitigation
- Nina Caspersen (University of York): The Trouble with Interim Peace Agreements: An analysis of six cases
- Claire Smith (University of York): The light and dark of democratic transitions: A tale of comparative civil war endings in Indonesia
Nina Caspersen 