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What we talk about when we talk about political settlements<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Download the working paper<\/a> or the executive summary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Key points<\/strong>:
\n\u2022 Political settlement is not a \u2018thing\u2019 to be designed and applied
\n\u2022 Political settlement analysis as a project aims to be useful for interveners dealing and engaging with the realities of elite power-balance<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong>: A discourse on the importance of understanding political settlements has achieved some salience in development academic and policy discussions. As a concept, however, the term political settlements can be (and has been) criticised: as lacking in clarity; as failing to do any real intellectual analytical work; and for being difficult to translate into practical strategies for change. This article reviews political settlement literature, and argues that \u2018political settlement\u2019 as an analytical concept has many of the flaws suggested, but that the central project of trying to understand the extent to which stopping violent conflict depends on powerful elites reaching deals on cooperation, and the ways in which such deals enable or limit projects of attempted transformation remains an important one. The article suggests that political settlement discourse has similarity with discourses emerging in other fields, all of which are attempting to respond to an \u2018era of disillusionment\u2019 in which moves towards democratisation or peace as an \u2018end point\u2019 of history, are now understand to have remained elusive despite sustained international intervention. The article suggests six critical research gaps which provide a focus for bringing work across the fields of development and conflict resolution together.<\/p>\n

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