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The Payoff of Promises: Articulating, Negotiating and Implementing Wealth Sharing

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Peace agreements offer an opportunity for poverty alleviation. Wealth-sharing is often part of the negotiations to end civil wars, but the outcome often disappoints, both the aggrieved who had placed their hopes in rebellion and the international sponsors of the settlement. This study focuses on wealth-sharing as a part of peacebuilding. We emphasize the path-dependent dynamics of the process, through three stages: the Promise (initial demands made by rebel groups), the Peace (negotiated peace agreement) , and the Payoff (implementation of wealth-sharing). Our three cases - Sierra Leone, Nepal and Sudan - allow us to compare between distributive and redistributive wealth-sharing schemes. In Sudan, policies regarding oil revenues are mostly distributive; l and reform is the dominant theme in Nepal, which is mostly redistributive; and in Sierra Leone demands were made for both types of wealth-sharing ? though only distributive policies have been implemented. The cross-disciplinary research team (history, so cial anthropology, economics & political science) is advantageous for a successful process-tracing methodology. We will track the words and actions of the principal parties (rebel groups, domestic elites, international organizations) through the above thr ee stages, documenting their necessary transformation as the challenges of wealth sharing and management become increasingly concrete. Although difficult, we also intend to track the expectations and perceptions of the rebels? supporters in the broader p opulation, as negotiations in the three cases progress to the Payoff stage. By highlighting the phases where the promises of rebel groups, governments, and international actors are at their most salient (and most vulnerable to change), we will develop a g reater understanding of the dynamics of peacebuilding for the international community. Field research will be done in three locations. Outputs are scholarly articles, a special journal issue and policy workshops.

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