IPSR - Volume 46, Number 5, November 2025

Special Issue: Inclusion and commissions in peace processes

Introduction to special issue: Inclusion and commissions in peace processes 
Natascha S Neudorfer and Dawn Walsh

The peacemaking role of independent commissions: The role of institutional design
Natascha S Neudorfer and Dawn Walsh

Stabilising transitions from conflict: The importance of transitional decision-making procedures
Chelsea Johnson

Inclusive commissions and durable peace: Lessons learned from the Liberia peace processes (1990–1996) and (2003)
Esra Cuhadar and Daniel Druckman

Sins of omission or acts of commission? Explaining the impacts of commissions on lasting peace
Nicholas Ross and Alexander Bramble

Gender quota adoption for commissions in post-conflict societies
Dawn Walsh and Emma Murphy

Explaining changes in women’s representation in peace processes: The adoption of a gender quota in the Agreement Monitoring Committee in Mali
Jenny Lorentzen

Subverting elections in Thailand: inclusion and independence in election commission design and practice
Petra Alderman

Independent commission design and inclusion in Northern Ireland: Agonistic versus traditional approaches
Emma Murphy