Quality Peace: The Role of Third Parties and the Search for Indicators

Quality Peace
The Role of Third Parties and the Search for Indicators
May 3-5, 2012

Quality Peace: The Role of Third Parties and the Search for Indicators
The conference is associated with a National Science Foundation grant awarded to Erik Melander, John Darby,
and Peter Wallensteen. Its main aim is to explore and develop the concept of Quality Peace by examining what
would constitute a successful peace process and how success might be measured.
Recent years have seen a significant growth of research on the success or failure of peace processes, and practitioners
have been eager to find examples of good practice. Some of these practices, such as proximity talks in
South Africa and Latin American Truth Commissions, have been widely imitated and adapted by practitioners
in other peace processes. The search for models of best practice, however, suffers from the lack of an agreed
framework on what constitutes success. This NSF project aims to create such a framework.
Conference organizers have identified five major factors that may promote and/or frustrate a stable peace: The
role of civil society; economic reconstruction; post-agreement security; transitional justice and reconciliation;
and negotiations. Experts from each of these fields attended a workshop at the Kroc Institute in November
2010. This year’s conference is much broader, as practitioners and researchers will further the Quality Peace
research agenda.
Conference Agenda Hesburgh Center for International Studies
Thursday, May 3
6:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
Club Naimoli
Friday, May 4
8:15 a.m.
8:30 a.m.
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Dinner Club Naimoli in the Purcell Pavilion, University of Notre Dame
Welcome & Introduction
R. Scott Appleby, Kroc Institute
The Meaning of the Quality of Peace
Scott Appleby, Kroc Institute (chair)
Erik Melander, Kroc Institute and University of Uppsala
Peter Wallensteen, Kroc Institute and University of Uppsala
John Paul Lederach, Kroc Institute
Madhav Joshi, Kroc Institute
Depart from Ivy Court Hotel
Reconciliation and Dealing with Past Violence
Papers:
“The Challenges of Reconciling the Old and the New in Truth and Reconciliation
Commission Processes: The Case of Solomon Islands”
Karen Brounéus and Holly Guthrey, National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies,
University of Otago
“Reconciliation’s Contributions to Quality Peace”
John Darby, Alexander Dukalskis, and Laura K. Taylor, Kroc Institute
“Factoring Transitional Justice into the Quality Peace Equation”
David Backer, University of Maryland

10:00 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
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12:00 p.m.
1:30 p.m.
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3:00 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
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“Quality of Peace in Cambodia: 20 Years after the Paris Peace Agreement”
Kheang Un, Northern Illinois University
Discussants:
Peter Wallensteen, Kroc Institute and University of Uppsala (chair)
Fanie Du Toit, Kroc Visiting Fellow/IJR in Cape Town, South Africa
Erik Melander, Kroc Institute and University of Uppsala
Break
Post Agreement Security
Papers:
“Peace Implementation and Quality Peace”
Terence Lyons, George Mason University
“Same Peace – Different Quality? The Importance of Security Equality for Quality Peace”
Louise Olsson, Folke Bernadotte Academy, Sweden
“El Salvador: Successful Democratization but Questionable Peace”
Dinorah Azpuru, State University
Discussants:
Madhav Joshi, Kroc Institute (chair)
Albrecht Schnabel, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces
Lunch
Civil Society and Governance
Papers:
“Civil Society and Quality Peace: What Happened in El Salvador”
Richard Jones, Catholic Relief Services, El Salvador
“Governance and Negotiations: Whose Quality Standards?”
Roger Mac Ginty, University of Manchester, UK
“Quality Peace Northern Ireland Case Study”
Colin Knox, University of Ulster
Discussants:
Erik Melander, Kroc Institute and University of Uppsala (chair)
Jaco Cilliers, UNDP Uzbekistan
Break
A Quantitative Approach to Quality Peace
Papers:
Christian Davenport, Kroc Institute

6:30 p.m.
6:45 p.m.
Saturday, May 5
8:15 a.m.
8:30 a.m.
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10:00 a.m.
11:45 a.m.
Erik Melander, Kroc Institute and Uppsala University
Pat Regan, Binghamton University
Discussants:
Peter Wallensteen, Kroc Institute and University of Uppsala (chair)
Scott Gates, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Meet in the lobby of Ivy Court Hotel to walk to dinner
Dinner
The Mark Restaurant, Eddy Street Commons
Depart from Ivy Court Hotel
Concluding Roundtable
Erik Melander, Kroc Institute and Uppsala University (chair)
All participants
Break/Free Time
Optional lunch and adjournment
Acknowledgment of papers received but not presented at this conference
“Mozambique: A Credible Commitment to Peace”
Carrie Manning and Chipo Dendere, Georgia State University
“Is Civil Society Needed for Quality Peace?”
Thania Paffenholz, Graduate Institute of International Relations and Development, Geneva
“Peace Processes, Economic Recovery and Development Agencies”
Achim Wennmann, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Geneva
“Business on the Frontlines”
Viva Bartkus, Mendoza School of Business, University of Notre Dame
“Approaches to Negotiations in Post-Civil War Settings: The Role of Local Institutions”
Jenny Guardado, Leonard Wantchekon, Sarah Weltman, Princeton University