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# Agreement Design and Transitional Justice

This section treats agreement text as architecture. Cessations of hostilities, preliminary ceasefires, framework agreements, comprehensive peace agreements, truth-amnesty bargains, and truth commissions all carry design choices that travel across cases.

The section is grounded in the lex pacificatoria insight: peace agreements are not just records of bargains. They become part of the language future processes inherit.

## Current Entries

- [Cessation of Hostilities Agreement](hostilities-cessation-agreement.md) — a narrow stop-fire instrument that interrupts violence without pretending to settle the conflict.
- [Preliminary Ceasefire Agreement](preliminary-ceasefire-agreement.md) — an interim security instrument that adds separation, monitoring, liaison, and follow-on machinery while the wider settlement remains unresolved.
- [Ceasefire Monitoring and Verification Mechanism](ceasefire-monitoring-verification.md) — the standing arrangement that watches a ceasefire, distinguishes a violation from an accident, and gives the parties a structured way to disagree about an incident without returning to fire.
- [Framework Agreement](framework-agreement.md) — a process-architecture text that names principles, issues, sequence, and future bodies before the parties can own the full bargain.
- [Comprehensive Peace Agreement](comprehensive-peace-agreement.md) — a full settlement architecture that connects security, governance, justice, reconstruction, and implementation into one transition system.
- [Power-Sharing Agreement](power-sharing-agreement.md) — the pattern that allocates governing authority across former combatants on four axes (political, territorial, economic, military) as a deliberate substitute for winner-take-all politics during a transition.
- [Lomé 1999](lome-1999.md) — the Sierra Leone reference case for a comprehensive peace text whose amnesty, power-sharing, truth-commission, and later Special Court afterlife define the peace-versus-justice problem.
- [Amnesty for Truth](truth-amnesty.md) — the conditional disclosure-for-amnesty bargain associated with South Africa's TRC, bounded by eligibility tests, victim participation, reparations, and criminal-law limits.
- [Truth Commission](truth-commission.md) — a mandate-driven truth-seeking institution that investigates patterns of past abuse, hears victims, publishes findings, and connects the record to reparations, prosecution, reform, and memory.
- [Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration](disarmament-demobilization-reintegration.md) — the implementation pattern that gives combatants a verified, sequenced way out of armed status without rewarding the war economy or collapsing into renewed violence.

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