Peace Negotiations Toolkit
PILPG drafts and runs negotiation simulations as part of its Peace Negotiations Practice. PILPG’s negotiation simulations focus on current conflict areas around the globe. They are run both for the policy-making community in Washington, D.C. and in-country, as part of training programs for parties engaged in conflict. The simulations help identify critical issues in each conflict, train participants in negotiation techniques, and facilitate development of innovative diplomatic solutions to armed conflicts. Following each simulation, PILPG drafts and distributes a Lessons Learned Report, which highlights key lessons that may be instructive in future negotiations.
Peace Agreement Drafter’s Handbook
The Peace Agreement Drafter’s Handbook is designed to serve as a practical guide for diplomats and lawyers involved in negotiating and drafting peace treaties and similar international agreements. The Handbook does not offer advice on techniques for negotiating agreements. Rather, the Handbook is designed to help parties translate their political agreements into legally-binding treaty language. Emphasis is placed on drafting clear and comprehensive provisions that can be implemented effectively.
The Handbook is divided into a series of subject matter templates covering areas such as ceasefires, demilitarization and disarmament, elections, and human rights. Each template contains a brief primer on the relevant subject, a brief summary of the political context in which similar agreements previously have been reached, a detailed comparative analysis of the language used in previous agreements, and model language for drafters.
Quick Guides
Over the past decade, PILPG has been called upon to advise its clients on a wide variety of legal issues commonly faced by parties participating in peace negotiations or drafting and implementing post-conflict constitutions. The Quick Guides project is the result of a decision by PILPG to distill some of its most important and widely-sought-after legal expertise into a format easily accessible to a wide audience.
Earned Sovereignty
The intensity and severity of sovereignty-based conflicts, their relationship to increasing levels of terrorism, and the lack of effective legal norms and principles have given rise to the need for a new approach to resolving sovereignty-based conflicts. This need increasingly is addressed by the emerging conflict resolution approach of earned sovereignty. Despite the increasing ad hoc reliance on earned sovereignty by mediators and parties to conflict, there is scant scholarly commentary discussing the approach and the political debate that surrounds its use. To advance the debate, PILPG has published a series of articles with the Stanford Journal of International Law and the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy.
Peace Negotiations Watch is a weekly electronic compilation of articles reporting on current disputes throughout the world. Each edition includes reports on disputes in places such as Armenia/Azerbaijan, Burundi, Chechnya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cyprus, Georgia/Abkhazia, Indonesia/Aceh, Ivory Coast, Kashmir, Macedonia, Nepal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Sudan.
