PILPG Resources

• PILPG 2025 Summer School Website

• PILPG’s Post-Conflict Governance Training, specifically:

  • Post-Conflict Governance Key Concepts and Perspectives

  • Post-Conflict Governance Infrastructures

  • Constitution Making & Design

  • Decentralization and Promoting Local Governance 

  • Vetting the Public Sector

  • Electoral System and Political Parties

  • Social Cohesion and Inclusivity

  • Social Infrastructure: Civil Society

  • Free and Independent Media

  • Civil Society and Watch Dog Institutions

  • Empowerment Projects

  • Security Sector and Military Reform

  • Re-establishing and Reforming the Economy

  • Transitional Justice

  • Human Rights Protections

  • Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion

  • Minority Protections

  • Women, Peace and Security

  • Case Study: Kosova

• Other PILPG Videos and Mini-Lessons:

  • Transitional Justice and Accountability 

  • Core International Crimes

  • International Courts and Tribunals 

  • Transitional Justice and Advocacy

  • Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

  • UN Investigative Mechanisms 

  • Lecture on Human Rights (with information on Human Rights Law)

  • Negotiating Power sharing

  • Negotiating governance 

  • Expert Exchange series on Accountability  (available in English and Ukrainian)

  • Peace v Justice

• PILPG Readings:

  • Paul R. Williams and Milena Sterio (eds.), Research Handbook on Post-Conflict State Building

  • Minority Protections in Post-Conflict Transitions 

  • Lawyering Peace Chapter on Governance (English)

  • Lawyering Peace Chapter on Governance (Arabic)

  • Women and Transitional Justice (English)

  • Women and CSOs in Transitional Justice (Arabic)

  • Case Study with Bob Perito on Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan, Angola, Libya, Liberia and Bosnia

  • Comparative State Practice Memo: Transition from Military to Civilian Administration (2024)

  • Security Sector Reform Comparative State Practice (Arabic)

  • SSR and DDR briefing paper (Arabic)

  • Legal memoranda on National Dialogues and considerations for post-conflict governance structures relevant for Syria.

  • Negotiating Justice: Peace Processes as Vehicles for Transitional Justice (March 2021)

  • Dr. Paul Williams’ “Lawyering Peace” Chapter two covers key conundrums related to negotiating power sharing: English and Arabic

  • Core Elements of Transitional Justice

  • International Legal Frameworks Protecting Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

• PILPG Podcasts (available on most podcast platforms):

  • Lawyering Peace Podcast:

    • Mini Series: Post-Assad Syria

    • Matthew T. Simpson on the 2011 Doha Negotiations

    • Balancing Peace and Justice: Ambassador Yvette Stevens on Sierra Leone (Apple, Spotify, Youtube)

    • Behind the Geneva Talks- Ivan M. Nielsen Diplomacy and Peace in Syria

    • Hind Kabawat on The Role of Women in the Syrian Peace Process

    • Ivan M. Nielsen on Pathways to Unity, Governance, and International Engagement in Post-Assad Syria

    • Syria’s Path to Transition: Inclusivity, Justice, and the Road Ahead with Betsy Popken

    • Hind Kabawat on Opportunities for Women in Post-Assad Syria

  • Hot Takes Podcast:

    • The Geneva Process

    • Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (2011): Justice on Hold

External Resources

• The Making of a State: Transition in Montenegro, by Dr. Igor Luksic and Milorad Katnic

• Cautious Praise for Montenegro’s EU Progress

• Trade for Peace podcast

• More on Liberia and the civil wars: CJA and International Crisis Group

• Conciliation Resources Accord (1996): Liberia

• Additional reading on Liberia post-conflict recovery and its accession to the WTO: 

  • “WTO, ITC reflect on five years of Liberia’s WTO membership” (2021)

  • Accession of Liberia: An Agenda for Transformation (Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Axel Addy, 2017)

  • Liberia: How Sustainable Is the Recovery? (International Crisis Group, August 2011):

• Conciliation Resources Accord: Why Did Bicesse and Lusaka Fail? A Critical Analysis

• Peace Agreements: The Case of Angola

• For a brief on Sierra Leone’s Transitional Justice Efforts, see “Transitional Justice in Sierra Leone - In Brief”, at JusticeInfo

• UN Security Council Resolution 1244, (established the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK))

• The Kosovo Report, The Independent International Commission on Kosovo (2000)

• Dr. Paul Williams, “Earned Sovereignty: Bridging the Gap Between Sovereignty and Self-Determination”, American University Washington College of Law (2004)

• Standards for Kosovo

• UNMIK Website

• The ICTY and the indictment of President Milosevic and others.

• “ICTY: The Kosovo Case, 1998-1999.” How the Crimes in Kosovo Were Investigated, Reconstructed and Prosecuted

• The 2010 Burmese Elections: Neither Free nor Fair. Elections Monitoring Report (2010)