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September 2020 | Linking Official and Unofficial Approaches of Engaging Armed Actors
This month, RESOLVE highlights recommended readings from the RESOLVE Policy Note, “Linking Official and Unofficial Approaches of Engaging Armed Actors.” In this note, author Claudia Hoffman discusses how coordinated approaches between different actors utilizing their respective strengths may help achieve specific goals and sustainable resolutions where non-state armed actors are involved. To enhance the policy note, the author includes suggested readings on contemporary conflict, armed actors and small arms control, creating negotiation momentum and persuasion strategies for engagement.
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This article examines the origins and evolution of the concepts of 'failed' and 'failing' states, arguing that the terms have come to be used in such widely divergent and problematic ways...
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This article reviews the literature on 'new wars.' It argues that 'new wars' should be understood not as an empirical category but rather as a way of elucidating the logic of contemporary...
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The threat of terror, which flares in Africa and Indonesia, has given the problem of failed states an unprecedented immediacy and importance. In the past, failure had a primarily humanita...
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The Handbook builds on good practices and innovative approaches developed in the field, while taking into consideration the most recent international arms regulation standards. It respond...
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Dialogue with armed groups on the specific issue of small arms is mostly confined to peace talks and disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration programs. Such focus on the post-confli...
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Numerous efforts to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through diplomacy have taken place over the last four decades. To shed light on this dilemma in this article, the role that priv...
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This report discusses the opportunities for and dilemmas of using political incentives as a means to respond to organized violence outside the conventional arena of armed conflict. It sug...
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According to William Zartman the elements necessary for a ripe moment are a Way Out and a Mutually Hurting Stalemate. This paper further develops ripeness theory by taking a closer look a...
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What are the varying roles that norms play to either enable or constrain violence in armed conflict settings? The article examines this question by drawing on experiences from communities...