Oxford LibGuides: War, weapons & victims : legal responses: When the war has ended: Jus post bellum

End of hostilities and restoration of peace: jus post bellum

Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law (MPEIL)
Remote access requires Oxford SSO. Start with article 'Peacebuilding'
Alternative names: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) ; Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (MPEiPro)

The Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law combines the fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) (originally published in print between 1991 and 2001) with the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (MPEiPro) which has been published (online only) since September 2019. The peer-reviewed articles in both works are updated and added to monthly.

Peace: a Very Short Introduction by Oliver P. Richmond
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 9780192857026
Publication Date: 2nd edn, 2023
Print copy can be requested from Closed Stack if preferred.
Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: A Lexicon by Vincent Chetail (Editor)
Call Number: Internat 700 C526a
ISBN: 9780199568154
Publication Date: 2009
Lending copy in Bodleian SSL at JZ5538.POS 2009
Jus Post Bellum: Mapping the Normative Foundations by Carsten Stahn (Editor); Jennifer S. Easterday (Editor); Jens Iverson (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 9780199685899
Publication Date: 2014
Print copy at Internat 760 S781b if preferred
Documents on the Law of UN Peace Operations by Bruce Oswald; Helen Durham; Adrian Bates
Call Number: Internat 687 O86a2
ISBN: 9780198757283
Publication Date: 2nd edn, 2019

Open access sources available to all with access to the internet

Jus Post Bellum
Open access entry in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) (ISSN 2161-0002)
UN Peacemaker
Official website with lots of pages. Quick links to important sections below

Jus Post Bellum towards a law of transition from conflict to peace by Carsten Stahn (Editor); Jann K. Kleffner (Editor)
Call Number: Open access title available to download via title link
ISBN: 9789067042727
Publication Date: 2008
Print copy in Law Library at Internat 760 S781a. Social Science library has a lending copy KZ6740.JUS 2008

International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
Open Access resource library "... stores all ICTJ's published work from 2001 to the present, grouped by category and searchable by keyword, country, issue, language, and more."

UN Peacemaker Peace Agreements Database Search
Open access "The database is a reference tool providing peacemaking professionals with close to 800 documents that can be understood broadly as peace agreements and related material. Users can access the full texts of the agreements in different languages and can use different search criteria, including searching by a number of different thematic issues."

Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law (MPEIL)
Remote access requires Oxford SSO. There is general entry "Peace Treaties" (dealing largely with conflcts from ending of WW2 to date) as well as others for the ending of various conflicts.
Alternative names: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) ; Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (MPEiPro)

The Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law combines the fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) (originally published in print between 1991 and 2001) with the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (MPEiPro) which has been published (online only) since September 2019. The peer-reviewed articles in both works are updated and added to monthly.

Peace Agreements and Human Rights by Christine Bell
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 0198298897
Publication Date: 2001
Print copy at Internat 570 B433a. Or the Social Science Library has copy in Short Loan collection K3240.BEL 2000

Integrated DDR Standards
Open access. "The Integrated DDR Standards have been formulated through the joint efforts of 25 UN entities, which together form the Inter-Agency Working Group on DDR (IAWG). Between 2009
and 2014, the IDDRS have been updated with new and revised modules. In 2017, the IAWG
took the decision to undertake a comprehensive review of the IDDRS, which culminated with the
launch of the revised UN Approach to DDR in 2019."

Treaties & treaty law
by Elizabeth Wells Last Updated Mar 11, 2025 262 views this year

Suggested subject search terms to try in SOLO

The specifically legal responses:

Intervention (International law)
Peace treaties
Peace-building -- Law and legislation
Postwar reconstruction -- Law and legislation
Transitional justice
Truth commissions

Wider setting
Peace-building --- Moral and ethical aspects
Peace-building -- Social aspects
Reconciliation

War -- Termination -- Moral and ethical aspects
War -- Termination -- Social aspects

Rethinking Peace Mediation : Challenges of Contemporary Peacemaking Practice by Anne Isabel Kraus (Contribution by); Lars Kirchhoff (Contribution by); Luxshi Vimalarajah (Contribution by); Julian Klauke (Contribution by); Mir Mubashir (Contribution by); Miguel Varela Rodriguez (Contribution by); Irene Fellin (Contribution by); Jamie Pring (Contribution by); Francis Ward (Contribution by); Jeff Seul (Contribution by); Josie Lianne Kaye (Contribution by); Emma van Santen (Contribution by); Elisa Tarnaala (Contribution by); Dana Landau (Contribution by); Andreas Hirblinger (Contribution by); Asli Ozcelik (Contribution by); Julia Palmiano-Federer (Contribution by); Emmanuel De Groof (Contribution by); Sinisa Vuković (Contribution by); Philipp Kastner (Contribution by); Catherine Turner (Editor); Martin Wählisch (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9781529208191
Publication Date: 2021
Morality, Jus Post Bellum, and International Law by Larry May (Editor); Andrew Forcehimes (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 1107024021
Publication Date: 2012
Print copy is at Internat 700 M466.5a
Localizing Transitional Justice : interventions and priorities after mass violence by Rosalind Shaw (Editor); Waldorf Lars (Editor); Pierre Hazan (Editor); Lars Waldorf (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9780804761505
Publication Date: 2010
If a print copy is preferred there is one in Social Science Library: JC571.LOC 2010

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