User:Boud/Draft:WikiProject Peace

Welcome to WikiProject Peace. Several Wikipedians (have formed or are seeing if they can form (UPDATE!)) this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's theoretical and empirical coverage of peace processes and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the to-do list, below.

This will not be proposed as a formal WikiProject unless about 6 to 12 editors add their names and are clearly active in editing related pages and in communicating with one another as a cohesive editorial group :). The aim is to move this page (together with the talk page) to WP: space if a critical mass is found. 22:10, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Goals

While military conflicts have got and continue to get, as of February 2022, huge amounts of academic and media attention, detailed theoretical and empirical coverage of peace processes gets much less attention, and correspondingly, much fewer and lower quality Wikipedia articles. The aim of this project is to improve the coverage of late XXth and early XXIst century research and other reliably sourced knowledge on these processes.

Scope

As of February 2022, the Wikipedia article Peace is very broad, and has a huge amount of material on prizes, religious ideas of peace, beliefs, monuments, and only a small fraction covers XXth+XXIst century research and organisations involved concretely in confidence-building measures and other processes. While this project might want to consider debating the best structure for the particular article "Peace", the main focus should be on:

• peace processes, especially (though not only) modern-day (late XXth and early XXIst century) peace processes, (preferably from peer-reviewed research and preferably concrete processes rather than abstract principles)
• formal and informal institutions involved in peace processes (such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, OSCE, but there are many such organisations; as of 2022, the OSCE apparently is not a legal entity)
• grassroots citizens' peace movements
• national and international agreements:
  • formal legal treaties (such as the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe)
  • informal non-binding agreements (such as the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances)
• research
  • peace and conflict studies research institutes (such as Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
  • peace researchers (such as Kjetil Tronvoll)
• peace journalism (as of February 2022, the basic theme of the article seems valid and WP:RS'd, but the article is more or less an essay advertising a single peace journalist)

Editing advice

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Open tasks

Groups of articles

• peace process-related articles – general improvement, more WP:RS, clarity in listing multiple, overlapping definitions by institutional sources and peace researchers
• institutions – add missing institutions (arms control has a list), improve quality of existing articles
• national and international agreements – add missing agreements, improve quality of existing articles
  • arms control – for XXth, XXIst centuries, currently mostly only covers nuclear arms control, and has some good lists; specific regional arms control mechanisms showing history and their interlocking relationships are needed:
    • arms control in Europe
      • Prose overview and tables including e.g. Helsinki 1975, CSCE/OSCE, Vienna Document+CFE+Open Skies Treaty (currently there's just a long list at Arms control#List of treaties and conventions related to arms control with no continental structure), which treaty does what, when did it start/end, and how these relate to the civilian infrastructure institutions such as PACE, Council of Europe, EU (see {{Supranational European Bodies}})
    • arms control in Africa
    • arms control in the Americas (N/Central/S together?)
    • arms control in Asia
    • create good diagrams for understanding this long history and list of arms control agreements/processes
• research – Are there sources on questions such as: is the number of research institutes/university departments as tiny as it seems? meta-research about peace research (e.g. compare research budgets, numbers of researchers, between military studies vs peace studies – is military research "bigger" by a factor or 10 or 100 or 1000 or 10000?) Answers would probably go into peace and conflict studies.
  • WP-notable research institutes such as SIPRI
  • research-based news media – Political Violence at a Glance = https://politicalviolenceataglance.org ; closed after 11 years of operation
  • Academic University College for Non-Violence & Human Rights (AUNOHR), created in 2014 as a university in Lebanon
    • founders: Ogarit Younan, Walid Slaybi; presidents: Issam Jamil Mansour (2014–?), Elham Kallab (2019?–2023-?)
  • European Institute of Peace - lacks independent sources about what EIP actually does
• individuals – Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Peace
• right to truth – International Criminal Court investigations/prosecutions are a key element of peace processes so that communities can go through a form of closure; as of 4 Mar 2022, articles are missing for Central Africa I+II, Ivory Coast, Georgia, Burundi, Bangladesh/Myanmar, Palestine, Philippines; see International Criminal Court investigations and [1]

Individual articles

• peace journalism – completely rewrite this article, using sources that are mostly independent of the peace journalist prominently starring in the current version (as of 9 February 2022)
• 1986 Stockholm Document – key confidence- and security-building measure (CBM/CSBM) agreement that followed the 1975 Helsinki Accords; ref: [2]
• 1999 Istanbul summit – stub of a key peace-process event, needs massive expansion: what? when? who? why? how?
• Centre for International Law Research and Policy – open-access (?) library and research centre for international criminal law (CILRAP)
• ICC judges – critical to long-term peace (as of 2022-03-12, 2022-07-15 as of 14 February 2024, these four, three two former judges are red links):
  • Mauro Politi (Italy, 2003-2009)
  • Geoffrey A. Henderson (Trinidad and Tobago 2014-2021)

Participants

Primary contact(s): ?

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Boud (talk) (I would very much like this project to be viable, but my contributions will be sporadic, without promises of sustained editing. A critical mass of editors would be needed for the project to be viable. I generally don't work articles up to Featured articles status; other people would need to do that.) 22:06, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
2. Bookku (talk) Though my participation in directly related topics will be limited, Still since I promote articles/ drafts on topics having information or knowledge gap following drafts seem to be indirectly important for peace related discussions IMHO. So requesting article expansion help in Draft:Civil life in conflict zones and Draft:Women, conflict and conflict zones. I also suppose researching and discussing including criticizing Bias in curricula (also media drama movies preaching) then hate speech in each and every country and religious schools and institutions can ultimately benefit peace processes.I also do recommend topic of Logic. 13 February 2022
3. 511KeV (talk · contribs) (This Wikiproject can prove helpful in bridging the gap under the white flag. I will be pleased to carry one.) 13:04, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
4. Thriley (talk) (Would be happy to create start class articles and expand current ones.) 04:38, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
5. XTheBedrockX (talk) (Happy to contribute to articles that analyze peace negotiations and their outcomes. I can't guarantee I'll always be active, but if a topic interests me, I'll probably contribute to it) 23:31, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Articles

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Peace-process-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

Currently eligible for DYK

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Nominated for DYK

• Ethiopia–Tigray peace agreement DYK-eligible until 04:45 UTC, 10 November 2022
  • Template:Did you know nominations/Ethiopia–Tigray peace agreement

Recently created/expanded, but not DYK eligible

• International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine, created 20:11, 4 March 2022‎, DYK-eligible until 20:11 11 March 2022 UTC
• Oksana Pokalchuk, created 00:45, 5 March 2022‎, DYK-eligible until 00:45 12 March 2022 UTC
• War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, created 20:36, 25 February 2022‎, eligible for DYK until 20:36 4 March 2022 UTC, ICC preliminary examination done 2020, ICC started a full investigation on 2 March 2022
• Vienna Document, key confidence-building (verification, info exchange) measure in Europe, restructured and expanded by about factor of 4 in prose, on 10, 11 February 2022‎, DYK requires factor of 5 expansion
• Oksana Potapova, Ukrainian peacebuilding researcher and activist, created 18:29, 5 February 2022‎, eligible for WP:DYK until 18:29 12 Feb 2022 UTC
  • related: the OSCE source also lists Annika Söder and Ayşe Betül Çelik who are currently WiR and sound quite WP-notable
• United States–Russia Strategic Stability Dialogue (SSD), a practical institution aimed towards avoiding nuclear armageddon, created 02:20, 4 February 2022‎, eligible for WP:DYK until 02:20 11 Feb 2022 UTC
• Afghan peace process, extended in scope to peace processes since the 1978 Saur Revolution, and covering the full range of peace processes attempted (per known sources) rather than just the US–Taliban deal (which excluded not only Afghan women, Afghan civil society but also the Afghan government, and didn't even hint at transitional justice, making it have almost none of the usual criteria used to define a viable peace process); updated at 02:30, 16 July 2022‎; effectively a more-or-less new article, but technically an old article, so ineligible for DYK

Review and assessment

Assessment

Assessment

Peer review

Peer review

Categories

• Category:Peace_processes – mostly for specific peace processes
• Category:Peace and conflict studies
  • We need a category such as Category:Peace research institutes for university type research institutes into peace processes (any alternative suggestions for names?):
    • Category:Peace organizations is mostly a mix of grassroots peace groups together with state and interstate peace-related institutions, but it does seem to have some peace research institutes either directly or in its sub- or sub-sub- categories
    • Category:Peace and conflict studies seems to be the easiest way to find peace research institutes
    • Category:Peace research journals or Category:Peace and conflict journals with journals such as
      • red: Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament [3] , Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence [4] hybrid +
      • blue: Peace and Conflict (stub), Journal for Peace and Justice Studies (stub), Journal of Peace Research (only weak sources so far), Journal of Conflict Resolution (stub)
• Category:Peacekeeping
• Category:Peace mechanisms
• Category:Treaties
• more broadly Category:Peace, but some re-organising could be useful
• individuals:
  • individuals in developing key institutions such as Alcide De Gasperi Jean Monnet, Robert Schuman, Paul-Henri Spaak – do we have a category for peace-institution-building individuals?
  • Category:Anti-war activists

Resources

Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history
  • when is a military defensive or legally justified? which military force did what and when, and what is its "current" composition? many editors may be interested in contributing to both projects
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Human rights
  • war usually involves the massive violation of human rights, especially the right to life. Efforts to build a positive peace as opposed to negative peace (mere absence of large scale violence) incorporate the protection of human rights.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Anti-war (as of February 2022, rather inactive)
  • grassroots anti-war movements play a significant role in many peace processes, pushing politicians and institutions to engage in peace processes
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red
  • research generally indicates that peace processes are more effective and last longer when women play a major role in the decision-making of the peace processes; WiR participants may be interested in adding articles for women peace researchers or women or women's groups participating in or leading peace process institutions (including early XXth century: see the 1919 Inter-Allied Women's Conference)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject International relations
  • peace processes are just one component of international and intranational relations