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1 - The Complexity of the Organizational Design for Implementation of a Peace Accord

A Predictable Obstacle to the Peace Agreement with the FARC?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2019

By
Santiago Leyva  and
Pablo Correa
Edited by
James Meernik ,
Jacqueline H. R. DeMeritt  and
Mauricio Uribe-López
James Meernik
Affiliation:
University of North Texas
Jacqueline H. R. DeMeritt
Affiliation:
University of North Texas
Mauricio Uribe-López
Affiliation:
EAFIT University (Medelin, Coloumbia)
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Summary

The objective of this chapter is to explore the future effect of organizational design on the likelihood of success or failure of the implementation of peace agreements using the Colombian peace accord as a case study. Previous exercises analyzing the implementation of peace agreements in the world have attributed great importance to aspects other than organizational design to explain the success or failure of the implementation. For example, the peace studies literature tends to explain problems in implementation by highlighting the factors associated with the war itself (type of conflict, types of spoils available, etc.) or by giving great importance to political factors (position of relevant actors, level of polarization, etc.) as the variables that explain each success or failure (Stedman, 2001; Hartzell, 2002; Cousens et al., 2003). However, these studies do not consider organizational design as a relevant factor for understanding why implementation processes fail or are successful.

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As War Ends
What Colombia Can Tell Us About the Sustainability of Peace and Transitional Justice
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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