Sharing Our Expertise
PILPG has developed the following toolkits and handbooks to manage, share, and deepen knowledge in the fields of peace negotiations, post-conflict constitution drafting, and war crimes prosecution/transitional justice.
The International Negotiations Handbook
This handbook discusses strategies for preparing for international negotiations, including substantive advice on goal-setting, preparing, performing well in the negotiation room, persuasion techniques, and more.
The Ceasefire Drafter's handbook
Drawing from PILPG's experience in ceasefire negotiations, as well as state practice and comparative analysis of over 200 ceasefire agreements, this guide helps negotiators and drafters of ceasefire agreements, including sample language and comparative provisions.
Negotiating Justice: Peace Processes as Vehicles for Transitional Justice
This briefing paper presents lessons and recommendations as to how peace processes can best nurture and promote transitional justice.
Post-Conflict Constitution Drafter's Handbook
This handbook helps parties, mediators, and practitioners better prepare for drafting and implementing post-conflict constitutions.
Investigations Field Guide
This field guide helps civil society actors investigate gross human rights violations in the field where no immediate efficient investigative authority is available, and there is a risk of deterioration of the information relative to these violations.
Frontier Justice Rule of Law Summary Report
The Impact of the War on Yemen’s Justice System
The report identifies key impacts of the war on Yemen’s justice system, covering both formal and informal justice processes and institutions in six governorates—Aden, Hadhramout, Ibb, Marib, Sana’a, and Taiz. Yemen’s war has led to an ever-changing landscape of military and political control over certain areas, fragmenting Yemen’s justice system amongst the authorities in control.
National Political Dialogue Handbook
The purpose of the Handbook is to provide a resource for practitioners on the important areas to focus on in the planning and execution stages of a national dialogue.
Investigations hANDBOOK
This toolkit helps civil society actors investigate gross human rights violations in the field where no immediate efficient investigative authority is available, and there is a risk of deterioration of the information relative to these violations.
Human Rights Documentation by Civil Society – Technological Needs, Challenges, and Workflows
This report is a wide-ranging needs assessment report for human rights documenters, transitional justice actors, and tool developers. The report aims to benefit those promoting accountability for perpetrators of atrocities by ensuring that civil society actors engaged in documentation-gathering processes have access to sustainable, tailored, and secure technological solutions.
Faith-Based Actors, Transitional Justice, and the Sri Lankan Civil War
This Sri Lanka case study drafted by the PILPG team analyzes how faith-based actors can strengthen transitional justice processes and goals, particularly, truth, reparations, justice, and guarantees of non-recurrence by examining the case study of faith-based actors in the war between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Tamil Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) from 1983 to 2009.