Lawyering Peace

How do parties to peace negotiations actually build durable peace and what conundrums must they solve to achieve durable peace?

Paul R. Williams (Author)

9781108745628, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 December 2021

250 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.458 kg

'Williams's book is excellent, and I would highly recommend it: In addition to being informative and erudite, it also manages to be interesting and entertaining - an enviable achievement. Although called Lawyering Peace, the book articulates how law and politics work together - something that is often missing from both legal and more political mediation accounts that touch on similar terrain.' Christine Bell, Lawfare

In all but the rarest circumstances, the world's deadly conflicts are ended not through outright victory, but through a series of negotiations. Not all of these negotiations, however, yield a durable peace. To successfully mitigate conflict drivers, the parties in conflict must address a number of puzzles, such as whether and how to share and/or re-establish a state's monopoly of force, reallocate the ownership and management of natural resources, modify the state structure, or provide for a path toward external self-determination. Successfully resolving these puzzles requires the parties to navigate a number of conundrums and make choices and design mechanisms that are appropriate to the particular context of the conflict, and which are most likely to lead to a durable peace. Lawyering Peace aims to help future negotiators build better and more durable peace agreements through a rigorous examination of how other parties have resolved these puzzles and associated conundrums.

Introduction
1. Security
2. Power-Sharing
3. Natural Resources
4. Self-Determination
5. Governance
Conclusion
Appendix: summary of key peace agreements
Notes
Index.

Subject Areas: International organisations & institutions [LBBU], International humanitarian law [LBBS], Armed conflict [JPWS], International relations [JPS]