Settlement Agreement in UK Law
- Dispute Settlement under the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: A Preliminary Assessment
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Do peace negotiations shape settlement referendums? The Annan Plan and Good Friday Agreement experiences compared
Peace negotiations have traditionally aimed at reaching a negotiated settlement between political representatives in conflict settings. However, these settlements have seldom been rejected in refer...
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Peace agreement design and public support for peace: Evidence from Colombia
Conflict negotiations are often met with backlash in the public sphere. A substantial literature has explored why civilians support or oppose peace agreements in general. Yet, the terms underlying .........Yet, the terms underlying peace agreements are often absent in this literature, even though (a) settlement negotiators must craft agreement provisions covering a host of issues that are complex, multidimensional, and vary across conflicts, and (b) civilian ......
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Bargaining in intrastate conflicts: The shifting role of ceasefires
Research shows that conflict parties engage in ceasefires in pursuit of a variety of objectives, some of which reduce while others fuel violent conflict. This article provides a framework that link......... a military solution yields a better outcome than a political settlement. In the Forcing Concessions context, they recognize the benefit of t settlement, but expectations about a mutually acceptable agreement still widely diverge. In the Enabling Agreement context, expectations ......
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‘The Possible as the Art of Politics’: Understanding Consensus Politics
Drawing on the Kuhnian model of scientific paradigms, this article suggests consensus politics should be conceptualised not as an agreement or a settlement but as a political framework that derives......... suggests consensus politics should be conceptualised not as an agreement or a settlement but as a political framework that derives from an ......
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Dispute settlement and jurisdictional issues for law enforcement and judicial cooperation in criminal matters under the EU–UK trade and cooperation agreement1
The rules on dispute settlement of Part 3 of the Trade and cooperation Agreement provide for a consultation procedure between the Parties, to be held either within the framework of the Specialized ......... and jurisdictional issues for law enforcement and judicial cooperation in criminal matters under the EU – UK trade and cooperation agreement 1 Albert Janet H ´ erès, Paris Abstract The rules on dispute settlement of Part 3 of the Trade and cooperation Agreement provide for a ......
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Bargaining, Bias and Peace Brokers: How Rebels Commit to Peace
What is the role of biased mediators in bringing belligerents to a negotiated settlement in internal armed conflicts? Previous research has suggested that biased third parties may mitigate commitme......... 177 Introduction A negotiated settlement is one pivotal turning point in the process from armed conflict to durable ...When parties in internal armed conflicts consider signing an agreement and lay down their weapons, the government stands to r elin- quish ......
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The Peaceful Settlement of Interstate Conflict: Saar, Austria, and Berlin
An integrative process model of conflict settlement is developed and compared in the cases of three conflicts. The basic idea is that conflict settlement should be understood as a process unfolding...
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The Northern Ireland Civil Service under Direct Rule and Devolution
Although the United Kingdom is usually regarded as a unitary state in the mould of the Westminster model, in reality, complete political integration and administrative ......... Stormont devolution in 1972) and in the newly-restored devolved settlement that was introduced in 1999, following the Belfast (Good Friday) ... the new devolved settlement intro- duced following the Belfast Agreement (1998). Political context Northern Ireland remains an integral part of the ......
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The Reform of Public Administration in Northern Ireland: From Principles to Practice
The system of public administration in Northern Ireland has, perhaps inevitably, been of secondary concern during 30 years of inter-communal sectarian strife. Faced with combating terrorism, succes.........In 1998, the Belfast Agreement (also known as the Good Friday Agreement), offered a breakthrough in the earch for a durable settlement that could command cross-community support. As part of subsequent devolved ......
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