The Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP) conducts research centrally focused on how peace processes attempt to revise political settlements to make them more inclusive, so as to end violent conflict. In particular we are interested in two forms of inclusion:
- forms of ‘horizontal’ inclusion between political and military leaders who have been former opponents, and
- forms of vertical inclusion between rulers (often in the form of new power-sharing coalitions of political and military elites), and the ruled (individual citizens who are part of wider social groups)