'kon gres 2009 - LEADR's 10th international ADR conference

A piece of the peace: designing effective peace agreements

Audio recording of this session (40 mins) >>

" Because we create ceasefires not peace agreements leads to the nonsense of the discussion of how enforceable a mediated agreement is”.

About the session

The Stockholm International Peace Institute has a basic measure for the effectiveness of any peace treaty: has the treaty remained unbroken for more than 5 years? Would Mediated Agreements stand up to that test?

Humans have been focusing on treaties for a long time: history’s earliest written records are commercial agreements and peace treaties. For thousands of years, humans have known how to craft durable, mutually beneficial peace agreements, and, history shows, they have also known how best not to.
Is it axiomatic to suggest that the characteristics of effective peace treaties between nations should have commonalities with those of effective mediated agreements between individuals? What improvements can we make in the way mediated agreements are crafted? This presentation will analyse internationally recognised requirements for effective peace treaties and compare them with the core components of effective mediated agreements, analysing some famous treaties along the way.

Podcast: Listen to Alysoun talk about her session (5 mins) >>

Alysoun lives with altitude - in the mountains south of Canberra – where she is nurturing a small orchard of heritage fruit trees, as well as a German shepherd and a Burmese cat. She is a member of her local branch of the Rural Fire Service, far removed from her son (who lives and works in London) and her sister (who lives and works near Geneva).

Alysoun Boyle

Alysoun has trained in Mediaeval Languages and in neuroscience. She has worked in the Commonwealth as well as ACT Public Services, and, while in the role of special advisor to ACT Chief Minister Kate Carnell, conducted international consultations about the introduction of what would have been Australia’s first medically supervised Heroin Trial.
She is now an NMAS Accredited Mediator and NMAS Accredited Instructor.

She co-presents the ANU College of Law’s Post-Graduate ADR Workshop and is a leading mediation trainer. She is a member of the NMAS’ own National Mediator Accreditation Committee and its Practice and Compliance Working Group.

Her ADR experience includes commercial, workplace, property development, and multi-party disputes. She is a Senior Mediator Member of the ACT’s new Civil and Administrative Tribunal, the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration and the Asia Pacific Mediation Forum.