El Barómetro es un informe trimestral editado en castellano y catalán por el Programa de Conflictos y Construcción de Paz de la Escola de Cultura de Pau de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. El documento analiza los acontecimientos ocurridos en el mundo a lo largo del trimestre (julioseptiembre de 2012) a través de cuatro capítulos: conflictos armados, tensiones, procesos de paz y dimensión de género en la construcción de la paz. Esta publicación actualiza los datos del informe anual Alerta 2012 y de los anteriores números del Barómetro.

Vicenç Fisas, Director of the School of Peace Culture, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

SUMMARY

RESUMEN

El Barómetro es un informe trimestral editado en castellano y catalán por el Programa de Conflictos y Construcción de Paz de la Escola de Cultura de Pau de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. El documento analiza los acontecimientos ocurridos en el mundo a lo largo del trimestre (enero – marzo de 2011) a través de cinco apartados: conflictos armados, tensiones, procesos de paz, crisis humanitarias y dimensión de género en la construcción de la paz.

Prólogo

Vicenç Fisas, Director of the School of Peace Culture, Universitat Aut=F2noma de Barcelona.

Confidence-building measures (CBM ) are those military actions, political, social, humanitarian, cultural, economic or diplomatic efforts to ease the tension between two opposing sides or opposing interests. CBM can be the basis of a peace process or complement other negotiation policies and it helps reduce negative stereotypes, calm things down and humanize the conflict.CBM also allows for a negotiation

(Director of the School for a Culture of Peace, UAB)

It is a demonstrable fact that many conflicts in which peace processes are present experience in a standstill their negotiations. The years pass and the nature of the conflict remains the same without the mechanisms for dialogue producing any progress. This standstill is more obvious in conflicts where a ceasefire has been achieved and, therefore, there is no significant violence or confrontation, which raises the question as to whether it is precisely the absence of violence with its consequent

Director of School for a Culture of Peace

?? In the Philippines, the MILF abandoned its request for independence for certain regions of Mindanao and instead agreed to create a sub-state or an autonomous republic.

?? In Kosovo, the International Court of Justice handed down a non-binding ruling that the 2008 declaration of independence did not violate either international law or United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244.

?? Turkey launched a dialogue process with the PKK, which claimed that it was willing to disarm if certain conditions