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Title

Achieving peace in northern Mali : past agreements, local conflicts, and the prospects for a durable settlement / Stephanie Pezard, Michael Shurkin.

Author

Pézard, Stéphanie.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND, [2015]

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Additional Authors

• Shurkin, Michael Robert.
• Shurkin, Michael Robert
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
• Rand Corporation.
• Rand Corporation, publisher.
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), issuing body.

Description

xxiii, 107 pages; 23 cm

Summary

This report examines the prospects for stabilization in Mali following the political and military crisis that began in 2012. To this end, it examines Mali's peace settlements since the early 1990s to identify flaws and successes. The authors find that five recurrent issues have impeded the implementation of successive accords: the lack of representativeness of the peace-accord signatories; a flawed understanding of decentralization and democracy; the limited perceived legitimacy, in the north, of Bamako; persistent insecurity; and an absence of transitional justice and reconciliation. The report recommends building representativeness through a variety of measures to simultaneously address these issues and help craft a peaceful way forward for Mali. The report also explores whether Mali's neighbor Niger owes its current stability to a more favorable context, shrewd policies, or sheer luck and whether it might offer a model of resilience for Mali. The authors recommend emulating some of the policies that could account for Niger's sustained stability, such as better integration of Tuareg populations and a focus on development programs in addition to security, while recognizing that these do not make Niger impervious to a resurgence of the political turmoil it experienced in the past.

Subject

• Mali > History > Tuareg Rebellion, 2012-
• Mali > History > Coup d'état, 2012
• Mali > Politics and government > 1991-

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "RR-892-OSD"--Cover page 4.
• "National Defense Research Institute."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- A brief history of Mali's rebellions and the implementation of peace accords -- Explaining the failure of past peace accords -- Moving forward -- Is there a Nigerien model of resilience? -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780833088239 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0833088238 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2015012292

OCLC

906447655

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library