Drafting in Doha: An Assessment of the Darfur Peace Process and Ceasefire Agreements
MONOPOLY OF FORCE, THE NEXUS OF DDR AND SSR, p. 41, Melanne A. Civic and Michael Miklaucic, eds., National Defense University Press, 2011
338 Pages Posted: 2 Apr 2012 Last revised: 1 Dec 2013
Date Written: 2011
Abstract
In the spring of 2010, in Doha, Qatar, the major parties to the Darfur conflict signed a series of framework and ceasefire agreements. The Doha Agreements comprise the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Framework, the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) Framework, and the LJM Ceasefire Agreements. These accords served two principal purposes.
The first and more obvious was to establish a cessation of hostilities and lay the foundation for the negotiation of a comprehensive peace agreement. Critical to each are provisions relating to Security Sector Reform (SSR) and the Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) of combatants. Well drafted SSR and DDR provisions, even at the very early stages of a peace process, encourage stabilization in the conflict region and the implementation of the agreement in a sustainable manner. The Doha Agreements, though including occasional language relating to SSR and DDR, largely missed the opportunity to set the framework for mechanisms that would bind the parties to the sustainable deescalation of the conflict.
Keywords: Doha, Liberation and Justice Movement, Darfur
JEL Classification: N40
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