Peace Talks Webinar: Local Peace Processes amid Fragmented Conflict

Exploring key findings from research into roles of local agreements, processes, and community level mediation for peacemaking.

In recent years, the difficulties and failures of national level peace processes, and the fragmented nature of contemporary conflict, have prompted increased attention on ‘the local’ as a space of conflict resolution. In 2021 a series of reports were published by the Political Settlements Research Programme, the Conflict Research Programme, and the British Academy, which explored the roles that local agreements, processes, and community level mediation can play as peacemaking tools, and ask how these processes relate to national efforts to end conflict. In this webinar, PeaceRep researchers will discuss the key findings from this work and reflect on what further questions the practice of local peace processes raise for contemporary peacemaking.

Reports:

• Local Peace Processes, British Academy

• War Versus Peace Logics at Local Levels: Findings from the Conflict Research Programme on Local Agreements and Community Level Mediation

Speakers:

Professor Mary Kaldor, London School of Economics

Dr Jan Pospisil, Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution

Dr Rim Turkmani, London School of Economics

Laura Wise, University of Edinburgh

Chaired by Dr Juline Beaujouan, University of Edinburgh

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