Case Studies - Write a Case Study

Guidelines for Submitting a Case Study 

Would you like to be a contributor to the Conflict Management Toolkit project?  The Toolkit seeks persons with expertise or knowledge in specific conflict areas to submit case studies for posting in this section. Previous submissions have come from practitioners, professors and students, so all are invited to participate. Your case study will be published here, noting you as the author, and your work will be a reference to all who access this site. 

Case Studies can be written specifically for this website, but most of our contributors have modified and adapted them from previous academic papers. Your case study should be approximately 5-6 pages, and should follow the instructions and topical outline below.

Outline

Please try to address all of the topics in the outline below. Not all conflicts experience all the conflict management approaches outlined in the Toolkit, but case studies should briefly discuss future prospects for using these approaches, or examine why these approaches were never used.

Please note that we can only accept case studies that closely follow this outline. Entries should be submitted to: nilanj@jhu.edu. Feel free to contact us for further information.

  1. History of Conflict

  2. Actors/parties involved

  3. Pre-Conflict Initiatives and Conflict Prevention
    1. Early warning indicators and signs
      -      Increased in political unrest
      -      Economic Crisis
      -      Political Unrest
      -Resource Scarcity
      -Shifts of Power In Central Institutions
      -Demographic Changes and Population Pressures
      -Ethnic, Religious and Cultural Tensions
      -Change in Political Freedom and Civil Rights
    2. Policy Responses to Impending Crisis (Local, National, and International Reponses)

  4. Escalation

  5. Peacemaking
    1. Negotiation attempts - process, outcome
    2. Actors involved - mediators, negotiators, etc.

  6. Peacekeeping
    1. Was there any?
    2. Actors involved
    3. Rules of engagement - goals, purpose of mission, use of force
    4. Problems on the ground - logistics, relation with parties to the conflict, coordination of military and
    5. civilian organizations
    6. Duration
    7. Integration into peacebuilding (was it successful?)
    8. Demobilization, Disarmament, and Reintegration

  7. Peacebuilding / Statebuilding
    1. Reconciliation
    2. Human Rights
    3. Economic development
    4. Democratization
    5. Institution Building

  8. Evaluation of Process - lessons learned

  9. Bibliography