Christine Bell

University of Edinburgh - School of Law

Professor of Constitutional Law

Old College

South Bridge

Edinburgh, EH8 9YL

United Kingdom

http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/staff/christinebell/

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (25)

1.

Peace Agreements or Pieces of Paper: UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and Peace Negotiations and Agreements

Transitional Justice Institute Research Paper No. 11-01
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 12 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2011
Christine Bell and Catherine O'Rourke
University of Edinburgh - School of Law and Ulster University - Transitional Justice Institute
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peace agreements, women, peace negotiations, UNSCR 1325

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Women Address the Problems of Peace Agreements

WOMEN, PEACEMAKING AND CONSTITUTIONS, R. Coomeraswamy & D. Fonseka. New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2005, Transitional Justice Institute Research Paper No. 11-03
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 Mar 2011
Christine Bell
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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women, peace agreements, peacemaking, armed conflict, negotiation

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Peace Settlements and International Law: From Lex Pacificatoria to Jus Post Bellum

Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 2012/16
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 18 May 2012
Christine Bell
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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Peace settlement, lex pacificatoria, international conflict, security law, international law, jus ad bellu, jus in bello

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Navigating Inclusion in Transitions from Conflict: The Formalised Political Unsettlement

Journal of International Development, 29:5 (2017), Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 2017/04
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2017
Christine Bell and Jan Pospisil
University of Edinburgh - School of Law and Independent
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political settlements, conflict resolution, peacebuilding, peace agreements, inclusion

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Counting Peace Agreements: The Transitional Justice Peace Agreement Database

Transitional Justice Institute Research Paper No. 09-12
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 18 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 04 May 2015
Christine Bell and Catherine O'Rourke
University of Edinburgh - School of Law and Ulster University - Transitional Justice Institute
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Peace Agreement

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Transitional Justice and Political Settlements

Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 2015/01
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 Jan 2015
Christine Bell
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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Transitional justice, conflict resolution, conflict transformation, international intervention, political settlement, peace settlement, political bargaining, international law, international criminal law, international human rights law, human rights

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Constitution-Making and Political Settlements in Times of Transition

Global Constitutionalism, special section, 2017 Forthcoming, Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 2016/23
Number of pages: 129 Posted: 12 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2016
University of Edinburgh - School of Law, University of Edinburgh, University College London - Faculty of Laws, Melbourne School of Government and Ottawa Dialogue
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political settlement, constitution-making, post-conflict, democratisation, transition

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Peace Agreements and the Law of Peace: A Consultative Paper Exploring Issues Relevant to Peace Processes in the Philippines

Transitional Justice Institute Research Paper No. 11-09
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Aug 2011
Christine Bell
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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peace agreements, law of peace, Philippines

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Transitional Justice, Interdisciplinarity and the State of the 'Field' or 'Non-Field'

The International Journal of Transitional Justice, Vol. 3, pp. 5-27, 2009, Transitional Justice Institute Research Paper No. 09-01
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 31 Mar 2009
Christine Bell
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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Peacebuilding, Law and Human Rights

Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 2012/17
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 18 May 2012
Christine Bell
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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Peace building, human rights, international conflict

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Of Jus Post Bellum and Lex Pacificatoria: What's in a Name?

Chapter 10, Ius Post Bellum: Mapping the Normative Foundations, Carsten Stahn, Jennifer S. Easterday, and Jens Iverson (eds) (OUP, 2014) pp 181-206
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Mar 2014
Christine Bell
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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ius post bellum, lex pacificatoria, human rights, humanitarian law, international criminal law, peacebuilding

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The Fabric of Transitional Justice: Binding Local and Global Political Settlements

This is an Accepted Manuscript of the introductory book chapter published by Routledge in ‘Transitional Justice’ (Library of Essays on Justice) on September 2016 available online., Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No.2016/ 22
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Oct 2016
Christine Bell
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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Transitional Justice, Human Rights, Lex Pacificatoria, Political Settlement, Conflict

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International Law, the Scottish Independence Debate and Political Settlement in the UK

A. McHarg, T. Mullen, A. Page, and N. Walker (eds) The Scottish Independence Referendum: Constitutional and Political Implications, Oxford University Press, 2016, Forthcoming, Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No 2016/02
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 Jan 2016
Christine Bell
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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Scottish independence, International law, Self-determination, Unionism, UK constitution

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Bloody Sunday: Judging Saville

Transitional Justice Institute Research Paper No. 10-05
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 10 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2010
Christine Bell
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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Saville, Bloody, Sunday

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Transitional Justice, Interdisciplinarity and the State of the ‘Field’ or ‘Non-Field’

International Journal of Transitional Justice, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 5-27, 2009
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 May 2009 Last Revised: 19 May 2012
Christine Bell
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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Bloody Sunday 'Set the Truth Free' Campaign

Transitional Justice Institute Research Paper No. 10-06
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 10 Jun 2010
Christine Bell
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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Bloody Sunday, Set the truth free, Saville Report

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Of Law and Lawyers

Transitional Justice Institute Research Paper No. 10-11
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 25 Jun 2010
Christine Bell
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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Iraq Inquiry, Chilcott

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Divine Intervention: Invoking God in Peace Agreements

in J. Mitchell, S. R. Millar, F. Po and P. Martyn (eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace, Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, Forthcoming 2022, Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 2021/22
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 01 Dec 2021
Robert Forster and Christine Bell
Chr. Michelsen Institute and University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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religion, peacebuilding, conflict resolution, peace agreements

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Peace Settlements and Human Rights: A Post-Cold War Circular History

‘Peace Settlements and Human Rights: A Post-Cold War Circular History’ Journal of Human Rights Practice 9(3) [2017, November/December], Special Issue on Human Rights and Peacebuilding. co-edited by M Parlevliet & M Roesdahl, Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 2018/01
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Jan 2018
Christine Bell
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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law; political science; conflict resolution; human rights; humanitarian law; peace agreements; peacebuilding

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Ways of Seeing: Peace Process Data-Viz as Research Practice

Convergence, Forthcoming 2022
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 26 Aug 2021
Christine Bell, Benjamin Bach and Tobias Krauer
University of Edinburgh - School of Law, University of Edinburgh and University of Edinburgh
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data-viz, interactive visualization, peace processes, peace agreements, international law

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Human Rights and the Struggle for Change: A Study in Self-Critical Legal Thought

Christine Bell, 'Human rights and the struggle for change: a study in self-critical legal thought' in Rob Dickenson, Elena Katselli, Colin Murry and Ole W. Pederson (eds), Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, Cambridge Universtity Press, 2012 at pages 217-46
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Aug 2021
Christine Bell
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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human rights, emancipation, northern ireland

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Brexit and the British Bill of Rights

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2020
Maynooth University Department of Law, Melbourne School of Government, University of Leicester, University of Edinburgh - School of Law, University of Liverpool, Independent, Independent, University of Durham , School of Law, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, UK, University of Edinburgh - School of Law, Queen's University Belfast - School of Law and Ulster University - Transitional Justice Institute

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ECHR, EU, Brexit, Human Rights, United Kingdom, Devolution, Consent

Does Feminism Need a Theory of Transitional Justice? An Introductory Essay

International Journal of Transitional Justice, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2007
Posted: 19 Mar 2009
Christine Bell and Catherine O'Rourke
University of Edinburgh - School of Law and Ulster University - Transitional Justice Institute

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transitional justice, feminist theory, international law, international criminal law, gender

Does Feminism Need a Theory of Transitional Justice? An Introductory Essay

The International Journal of Transitional Justice, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 23-44, 2007
Posted: 19 May 2009
Christine Bell and Catherine O'Rourke
University of Edinburgh - School of Law and Ulster University - Transitional Justice Institute

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The People's Peace? Civil Society, Peace Agreements and Participatory Democracy

International Political Science Review, 2007
Posted: 19 Mar 2009
Christine Bell and Catherine O'Rourke
University of Edinburgh - School of Law and Ulster University - Transitional Justice Institute

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Civil society, Constitutional law, Democratic institutions, Peace agreements, Peace and conflict, Political participation

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Peace Agreements: Their Nature and Legal Status

American Journal of International Law, Vol 100, pp., 373-412, 2006
Posted: 15 May 2008
Christine Bell
University of Edinburgh - School of Law

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peace agreements, international law, compliance, international agreements, treaties, legalization