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Echavarría Álvarez

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2023-10-20
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  1. “I hope that the data-based evidence and concrete examples I have shared today serve as proof that sustained dialogue leading to peaceful arrangements can succeed when the issues included in the peace accord involve a wide range of policy domains, when the negotiation table is generous and includes victims of the war, and when independent mechanisms for verification and monitoring accompany the process of implementation. Peace through dialogue is possible and can be successful. The University of Notre Dame’s commitment to peacebuilding is a permanent task. Let us never flag in our efforts to build peace in any and all environments.”

    2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source

  2. “I would like to take this opportunity to recognize the Security Council and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for their work. The hybrid monitoring mechanism is, without a doubt, a best practice with great potential for replication at regional and subregional levels. Recently, the signatory parties to the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro in the Philippines invited the Kroc Institute to provide monitoring and verification support for implementation. Together with Catholic Relief Services and other civil society organizations, our aim is for PAM data to continue to be used as a centrepiece for conversation and peacebuilding.”

    2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source

  3. “More than 35 Colombian staff members in the capital and in rural areas gather information from public sources, and are in constant dialogue with the parties to the Agreement, implementation agencies, the international community and civil society. We rate the levels of implementation of the commitments from non-initiated to complete and highlight milestones, challenges and opportunities for improvement. The Colombian peace accord’s strong, independent and reliable mechanism of verification has a crucial component: the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, which has been vital for maintaining the momentum, support and resources of the United Nations and the international community on the peacebuilding process.”

    2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source

  4. “Their value to a peace accord underscores the importance of academic institutions and research centres lending their technical knowledge and credibility for independent monitoring. Allow me to zoom in on the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace, signed by the Government of then-President Juan Manuel Santos and the former Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia–Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) guerrillas in 2016. After providing technical support during the negotiations in Havana, the signatory parties gave a mandate to the Kroc Institute to be part of the international verification mechanism and monitor the implementation of the entire accord in real time. We created a matrix based on 578 concrete, observable and measurable commitments.”

    2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source

  5. “Listening to the victims helps us to understand the deep transformations needed to overcome violence and their ownership of the accord further supports the implementation process. Hence, putting human dignity at the centre of peacemaking is not only an ethical decision but also a sound strategic decision for conflict parties, mediators and negotiators. The third and final factor that contributes to the success and resilience of peace accords is having strong, independent and reliable monitoring and verification mechanisms. PAM’s research shows that peace accords with third-party mechanisms have an almost 47 per cent higher rate of implementation success than those that do not. Those mechanisms must be included in the design of a peace accord and should be chosen based on their validity, legitimacy and reliability.”

    2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source

  6. “First, peace agreements are more likely to succeed when the commitments included in the accord go beyond military and security provisions, such as those dealing with the demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants. They are also more likely to succeed when they incorporate questions of political and social development and gender and ethnic rights, as well as justice-related reforms that benefit society as a whole. More often than not, those reforms are brought to the negotiation table by the victims of the war and other representatives of civil society organizations. Here we find a second key factor for successful peace accords — the actors and stakeholders sitting at the negotiation table must include those most affected by the war, such as women, youth and ethnic communities.”

    2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source

  7. “We make use of that research- based knowledge to engage conflict parties, mediators, negotiators and civil-society organizations in dialogue, with technical advice on process and content issues. The findings from our database and analyses provide us with relevant insights into the reasons for peace accords’ failure. Most accords fail when they are not comprehensive in relation to the issues that they cover, when not all actors and stakeholders are engaged in their negotiation and implementation, and, importantly, when the peace accord lacks a strong and independent verification and monitoring mechanism. Let me expand on each of those factors.”

    2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source

  8. “At the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) project at the Kroc Institute, we have researched more than 34 intra-State comprehensive peace accords since 1989. We have tracked the implementation process for up to 10 years following the signing of each agreement. We have designed a methodology specifically for monitoring the implementation of the commitments so that we can both compare accords to one another and look at the performance of the provisions in their own right. The PAM data offers insights into the types of provisions that are more or less likely to be implemented; how implementation processes unfold over time; and how implementation affects different post-accord outcomes.”

    2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source

  9. “Ms. Echavarría Álvarez: I want to thank Brazil for this invitation to speak to the Security Council, which is a great honour for me as a representative of the University of Notre Dame. In these times of peril, tensions and the increased securitization of international relations, today’s debate on peace through dialogue is urgent. Sustained dialogue is most needed when there are disagreements and political difficulties. They are the best times to deepen our understanding on how and when the implementation of peaceful arrangements fails — which is not an uncommon occurrence — and to focus our attention on how to design and implement peaceful arrangements that can succeed in the short, mid- and long term.”

    2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source