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Before going into exile, Taylor turned over the presidency to his long-time ally, Vice President Moses Z. Blah, who is to rule until a new transitional government takes over.
A written agreement to demobilize more than ten thousand paramilitaries by 2006 has been agreed, and plans are being laid – including a transitional period of limited immunity from arrest so long as the cease-fire holds and the time spent under this agreement will be counted against any eventual prison sentences imposed – to reintegrate them into civilian life.
A flexible and sustainable formula can certainly be found, almost surely including a transitional period that allows both sides to adjust to and account for their different water management systems, as well as for changing conditions and institutions in the future.
Finally, this time, the negotiations are more manageable in scope, focusing on five specific issues: an agrarian-development policy, the FARC’s political participation, ending the conflict (demobilization and transitional justice), reparations for the victims, and curbing the illicit drug trade.
This race to restrict pervaded decision-making on transitional arrangements following accession of 10 new members – eight of them postcommunist countries – to the EU last May.
Such a transitional authority could call upon the international community for needed support more easily than an exiled rebel group could.
A negotiated transition must include a poverty-eradication program, as well as a law on transitional justice and national reconciliation that brings to justice those who have committed grave violations of human rights and other crimes, including by banning them from any political activity.
International assistance would be needed, for example, to help disarm the population (especially the paramilitary colectivos), professionalize the military and police forces, reform the judiciary, manage the transitional justice program, recover stolen funds, and rebuild the health system.
But the Copenhagen climate summit was always meant to be a transitional step.
In her novel The Cairo House, Samia Serageldin remarks that, “for those whose past and present belong to different worlds, there are times that mark their passage from one to the other, a transitional limbo.”
Egypt today is in such a transitional limbo.
Some months ago, discussions about a peace process centered on the question of whether Assad should go immediately, or remain during a transitional government; now, the question is whether the former al-Nusra is a viable partner.
The world remains in a very delicate transitional phase, and it is not clear yet in which direction the G-20 will lean.
Unlike the West, where the very concept of strategy has become an oxymoron, China has embraced a transitional framework aimed at resolving its sustainability constraints.
While the eurozone’s richer countries have indeed done much to help their troubled neighbors, they have done so in an obtrusively conditional, transitional, and incremental fashion.
The transitional independent privatization agency proposed by Jean-Claude Juncker for paying the Greek debt is not a good idea.
Fifth, immigration can be treated either as a step towards the full integration of migrants, or as a transitional phase in their lives.
They require massive transitional expenditure as they are introduced.
Since the ouster of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, the country has endured pressures from Islamic radicals, a deterioration of its economy, and a chaotic transitional period.
Now we are in a transitional era, with the rest of the world out-producing, out-manufacturing, out-trading, and out-investing Europe and America – but not yet out-consuming them.
Reformers, politicians, and international advisors should focus on improved public understanding and on innovative transitional strategies for pension fund reform in order to undo the continuing fiscal legacy of the ancien regime.
Moreover, the political situation remains unsettled, with transitional or interim governments, unfinished constitutions, and uncertain timetables for future elections.
The recent legal revolution in France is no less important, even if it is still in a transitional phase.
Last month, the Afghan leadership finally adopted – albeit half-heartedly – a transitional justice plan that could remove from power the biggest war criminals who have consolidated their grip on the country over the past five years.
Although recent events call into question local security conditions and transitional governments’ commitment to international agreements, Arab leaders welcome the shift in focus from their policy failures.
Amid the current focus on regime change, a transitional government, and negotiating delegations, there is a real danger that the desperate humanitarian situation will be overlooked.
For the Saudis, the only acceptable solution starts with the resignation of Assad and his government, while Geneva II envisages a transitional government in which all of the parties are represented.
A better way to deal with the fear of migrants abusing social welfare systems would be to adopt a common and rather generous transitional quota at the level of the EU as a whole, to be lifted early if it is not filled.
While these transitional restrictions are put in place, reforms should be undertaken that address the underlying basis for the public's fear of migration.
The rough, transitional justice that often follows a change of regime has not taken place, at least not yet.
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