Mediation

This book project examines the role of legitimacy in mediating civil wars in Africa.

This book project examines how effective the peacekeeping operations are in ending local, non-state conflicts involving organized non-state armed groups and communal groups.

Peacemaking is full of dilemmas. Peace Puzzles is a podcast that shines a light on these dilemmas through telling the stories of those involved in trying to end armed conflict.

The African Peace Processes (APP) dataset covers peacemaking efforts in armed conflicts in Africa over the 1989–2019 period. Specifically, the dataset identifies peace negotiations in armed conflicts listed by the Uppsala Conflict Database Program (UCDP), and records information on each negotiation’s outcome, as well as on any third party involved as a mediator. Unlike previous data collections of this kind, the APP dataset includes observations on peace negotiations in both active and inactive conflicts, as well as in inter-​state, intra-​state, and non-​state conflicts. As such, the APP dataset allow scholars to study the effect of mediation across a broader range of African conflict settings than has hitherto been possible.