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The second volume in the South Asian Peace Studies series, Peace Processes and Peace Accords looks at the political question of peace from three perspectives: the process of peace; the contentious issues involved in the peace process; and the ideologies that come in conflict in this process. Arguing that peace is not a one-time event to be achieved and rejoiced over but a matter to be sustained against various odds, the contributors show that the sustainability of peace depends on a foundation of rights, justice and democracy. Peace accords, they maintain, are only a moment in the process-the

Investigates stalled and dysfunctional peace processes and peace accords in societies experiencing civil wars. Using a critical and comparative perspective, this book offers strategies for rejuvenating and re-orientating stalled peace processes and peace accords so that they are more able to foster sustainable and inclusive peace

Peace is not an esoteric word. It has philosophical underpinnings and real world connotations. In a nuclear era with the latest, and manifest, conflicts which may end in total war, peace becomes a deceptively complex word. Peace Research and peace movements become dualities which are necessary strategies for world peace. As a scientific compilation of data and meaning methodology, they are a comparatively new phenomena but in terms of some kind of a movement have always been active. Even if only a protest by a minority it has been an ongoing phenomenon. Peace Research and eventually peace movements become part of a social consciousness that is important to achieve a political end—world peace. This paper spells out the meaning of Peace Research, its development and links with peace movements. Some peace movements in different parts of the world have been brought out merely to substantiate the peace research and its concepts. It is by no means exhaustive. A lot needs to be researched and brought out. But one main idea seems amply clear that the world system needs restructuring to absorb Peace Research and peace movements if only to rationalise it, make it viable for both study and activism. So also a change is needed among the "realist" thinking if only to achieve positive and developmental peace, i.e. peace combined with social justice.

Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Peace accords in Angola: Contesting the meaning of success -- 2 Peace and peace agreements in Burundi: When the right time comes -- 3 Deliberate coexistence of war and peace in Chad: The case of the Tripoli Accord -- 4 The long road to peace in Côte d'Ivoire: From civil war over power sharing to international intervention -- 5 Analysing the peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo: From war to uncertain peace -- 6 Somali peace processes and agreements: From Djibouti I (1991) to Djibouti IV (2008-09)