What is it about?
Negotiators commonly focus their efforts on the leaders of military forces, excluding many important social groups. This creates a greater centralization of political power, reducing public political participation. However, the Inter-Tajik Dialogue in Tajikistan illustrates a successful strategy for overcoming the dynamics of exclusion that drive political settlements between military leaders. Dialogue participants became effective practitioners developing a large number of public associations committed to conflict resolution and of a more inclusive civic culture
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Why is it important?
Negotiations with powerful military leaders can reach a power-sharing agreement, but these often fail during implementation, and instead recreate the conditions of social and political exclusion that originally led to a civil war. Therefore, formal UN-mediated political negotiations need support from civil society, intellectuals and aid providers.
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Durable peace in Tajikistan resulted from the combined effect of indigenous efforts to organize associations and societies for peace-building, significant aid and development organization activity, and a culture with indigenous roots for openness and pluralism.
Associate Professor Jonathan K Zartman
Air University
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This page is a summary of: Negotiation, Exclusion and Durable Peace: Dialogue and Peacebuilding in Tajikistan, International Negotiation, January 2008, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/138234008x297931.
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