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Financing mechanisms are central to the operational efficacy of peace operations, yet current analysis of peacebuilding finance is atomistic, focusing on one domain, such as coordination or financing. To address the need for deeper understanding of how financing modalities affect peacebuilding outcomes, this paper identifies the trade-offs and opportunities of different financing schema across the lifespan of a peace operation. In order to parse the linkages between financing and outcomes, this paper examines: (1) control of donor funds within a transitional state; (2) budgeting for coordination and alignment; (3) promoting partnerships and participation through funding modalities; and (4) funding 'quick impact' projects to bridge the periods of immediate relief and long-term development. With reference to peacebuilding operations in Liberia after the 2003 Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement, this analysis highlights numerous innovations and experiments in the financing of peace operations, examining the advantages and disadvantages inherent in different approaches.

This book critically investigates the conditions facing the warring parties during the implementation of peace agreements in Mozambique, Angola and Liberia, as successes and failures in these countries highlight incentives for the international community to keep peace processes from faltering

THIS ARTICLE TAKES A CLOSE LOOK AT THE PROCESS OF PEACE IN LIBERIA AND QUESTIONS THE MEANINGFULNESS OF THE JULY 1997 VOTE, LIBERIA'S NEWFOUND POLITICIAL STABILITY, WHETHER THE LIBERIANS ARE TRULY ON THE PATH TO DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT, AND WHETHER ONE CAN RAILROAD PEACE. THE ARTICLE ALSO REVIEWS THE 1997 CAMPAIGN AND ELECTION AND EXAMINES THE POLITICIAL UNCERTAINTY OF THE POST-ELECTION PERIOD. IT ALSO DISCUSSES EX-FIGHTERS AS A THREAT TO STABILITY, LIBERIA'S DIM ECONOMIC PROSPECTS, THE STRUGGLE OF POVERTY, AND WHETHER THE PROGRESS THAT LIBERIA HAS MADE IN RECENT MONTHS IS SUSTAINABLE.

Die Wahlen im Juli 1997 galten als erster Meilenstein im Friedensprozeß, der den Bürgerkrieg in Liberia beenden und zu einer neuen Friedensordnung führen sollte. Der Autor zeichnet den Verlauf des Friedensprozesses von der Unterzeichnung der Abuja-Verträge im Jahr 1996 bis ins Frühjahr 1998 nach. Dabei wird die Rolle Nigerias als Führungsmacht in ECOMOG analysiert und die weiterhin bestehenden ungelösten Fragen sowie interne Probleme dargelegt. Sie stellen eine permanente Bedrohung des Friedens dar. Zentrale Themen sind hierbei die große Armut und die Perspektivlosigkeit der Jugendlichen und ehemaligen Kindersoldaten. (DÜI-Spl)

The implementation of a peace agreement following a civil war is one of the most critical and uncertain processes of any post-war period. Many argue that promises of extensive power sharing arrangements in future governments and international intervention help advance the implementation of a peace process. While not doubting the importance of these factors, this paper argues that they do not sufficiently account for the incremental process of an implementation. Through an analysis of the numerous peace agreements of Liberia's first civil war, from 1989-1996, this paper presents the theory that the implementation of a peace agreement will advance if the level of vulnerability during the implementation period is equally balanced among the faction leaders. In other words, given that the concessions offered in a peace agreement will bring some change in military, economic, or political vulnerability among the factions, the implementation process advances when the faction leaders feel mutually vulnerable. Liberia's nearly decade-long conflict, interspersed with periods of fragile peace, provides an opportunity to observe the effects of changes in military and political vulnerability on the implementation process.

Post-war peacebuilding is a delicate undertaking, and even the most promising process will face challenges and setbacks, purposeful as well as accidental. Examples include residual violence, coups d'états, terrorist attacks, delays of implementation, disagreement over what has been agreed, etc. Sometimes these challenges derail a peacebuilding process, but in other cases they are overcome allowing the process to continue more or less unaffected. The ability to withstand challenges should be an important indicator of the quality of peace and the success of post-war peacebuilding, and is now entering the conceptualization of peace and peacebuilding in the form of "resilience." This paper starts from the need for a conceptualization of peace between negative and positive peace, and argues that resilience would be a useful concept. It then traces the argument back again, from adaptive cycle theory, via resilience, to peacebuilding. The tentative conclusions are very general, but I have not yet had the time to actually conduct a case study of Liberia. ; Resilient Peace:A Systems-Approach to Peacebuilding