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We aim to produce research to support local communities in constructing their own peace and transition processes, and more also effective intervention to support strategic support to peacemaking and peacebuilding efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Our work is organised into four broad research themes: understanding the fragment state, reinventing peace processes, geopolitical underwriting, and digital transformation\/PeaceTech. A body of work under each theme will underpin a set of country case studies and provide a mechanism for cross-consortium development of ideas. Each theme will produce a range of outputs: publications, policy briefs, workshops and events, datasets and country dashboards. Our key research questions for each theme are set out below. Browse and search our <a href=\"https:\/\/peacerep.org\/publications-database\/\">publications<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/peacerep.org\/data\/\">data<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/peacerep.org\/resources-2\/\">resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Understanding the Fragment state<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This work develops the \u2018fragment state\u2019 analysis to help us understand conflict and peace dynamics, and where and how best to support agency for peacebuilding, through a series of connected academic and practice-based inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Key research questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How can we methodically understand the fragment state and the impact of interventions within it?<\/li>\n<li>How can political power and political logics be understood in the fragment state?<\/li>\n<li>Can we map the different actors, and the projects of cooperation and opposition in which are engaged?<\/li>\n<li>What are the ways in which different actors understand themselves to have projects of positive change, and agency to work towards that change?<\/li>\n<li>How is the \u2018fragment state\u2019 financed and how do resource flows and natural resource management look like?<\/li>\n<li>What are the possibilities cooperation and brokerage for the different visions of the conflict and possibilities for the future of local, national, and international actors?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Reinventing peace processes<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This work is the empirical \u2018meat\u2019 of PCREP and asks how the concept of \u2018fragment state\u2019 can be used to improve peace process design and implementation. The project will interact with a strong practical component of rapid reaction and support of FCDO\u2019s peacemaking and peacebuilding work, and direct peacemaking engagement of PCREP partners in Afghanistan, Ethiopia\/Ogaden, Iraq, Sudan, and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Key research questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What actors and support mechanisms support national peace processes, and to what extent can we anticipate implementation issues and support parties to negotiations to \u2018pre-design\u2019 solutions into agreements?<\/li>\n<li>How do people perceive peace processes and how do they think they can work more inclusive?<\/li>\n<li>How to engage hold-out actors and difficult partners in peace processes?<\/li>\n<li>How do design choices relating to any interim arrangement affect how the process unfolds, and who is included?<\/li>\n<li>How can constitution-making processes that seek to institutionalise peace process commitments be better supported?<\/li>\n<li>When and how are peace agreements implemented? How do parties build \u2018political trust\u2019 in diversity over time, what role do third parties play, and when and how does developing political trust shape understandings of identity?<\/li>\n<li>What is the strategic relationship between peacemaking and peacebuilding at the international, regional, national, and local level?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Geopolitical Underwriting<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The international landscape of peacemaking and peacebuilding is changing rapidly, with a \u2018global marketplace of political transition\u2019 (Carothers and Samet-Marram, 2015) quickly taking shape. A \u2018global ungovernance\u2019 of peace (Bell, Pospisil, 2020) goes hand in hand with increasing regionalism. The impact of these developments on the dynamics of peace and conflict will be examined based on PCREP\u2019s case studies.<\/p>\n<p>Key research questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How is a changing international conflict and peacebuilding resolution landscape playing out in practice, and how is it likely to affect peace and transition processes in the future?<\/li>\n<li>What are the regional dynamics of the new geopolitical context in the case studies?<\/li>\n<li>What are the consequences for the normative global order that has been key to struggles for inclusion?<\/li>\n<li>What are the prospects for cooperation in any new peace process modalities that emerge?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Digital transformation \/ PeaceTech<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This is a distinct workstream will support and develop the other projects and seek to provide new and innovative ways of \u2018PeaceTech\u2019 working, focused on innovations in: data mining; data and research collaboration; and feedback to data owners and social change agents in the field. We will seek to establish the PSRP and Transition Futures Hub as a major national, European and International PeaceTech lead. The workstream will develop the PA-X database and integrate it in innovative projects of data visualisation and dashboarding (focused dashboarding in PCREP priority countries). Furthermore, the component will establish an international network of PeaceTech practitioners for innovative digital transformation management in peace processes.<\/p>\n<p>Key research questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How can data for processes be constructed to create a comparative frame for peace process comparison? What improvements on PA-X data and interconnectivity can be built?<\/li>\n<li>How can peace process data across organisations be linked to create \u2018big data\u2019: what are the obstacles to collaboration, and what are the technical solutions?<\/li>\n<li>How do research methods of data collection lead to new ways to collaborate, and to \u2018seeing things differently\u2019? How can innovative processes of visualisation provoke new constituencies to interact with the data and use it for social change and peacebuilding?<\/li>\n<li>How can data capacity be harnessed across global north and south for peace making capacity?<\/li>\n<li>What are the best modalities for bringing together the human resources for good technological innovation, with the research questions which will assist new forms of peacebuilding activity, with the researchers, in a good \u2018product design\u2019 tool?<\/li>\n<li>What is distinctive about PeaceTech, from other forms of \u2018Tech\u2019?<\/li>\n<li>How can participation of women and marginalised communities be facilitated in a data world of uneven access?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World-class research into peace and conflict resolution PeaceRep\u2019s research focuses on how to re-think peace and transition processes in the light of changing conflict dynamics, changing demands of inclusion, and<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gentest.cahss.ed.ac.uk\/dev-peacerep\/research-and-data\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":19591,"parent":0,"menu_order":-60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-flex.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"authors":[],"class_list":["post-22946","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PeaceRep Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn more about PeaceRep&#039;s core research themes: Fragmentation, Peace Processes, Geopolitical Transitions, and PeaceTech.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Our Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The PSRP is organised into six research themes. 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