Christine Bell

Christine is Executive Director of the PeaceRep ‘Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform’, which is producing research to support rethinking peace and transition processes in a changing conflict land scape, and is a founder of the PA-X Peace Agreement database.  The Programme and Database have a particular focus on gender and inclusion of women, and LGBTQ+ communities in peace mediation and peace process outcomes.

Key research interests and projects include:

Her research interests and projects focus on the interface between constitutional and international law, gender and conflict, and legal theory, with a particular interest in peace processes and their agreements.  She convenes along with International IDEA, a Women Constitution-makers Network, and the PeaceRep team at Edinburgh have produced a range of work and PeaceTech innovations relating to the inclusion of women in peace processes.

• In 2023, Christine and the wider PeaceRep team won the RSE’s Mary Sommerville Medal.
• In 2007, Christine won the American Society of International Law’s Francis Deake Prize for her article on ‘Peace Agreements: Their Nature and Legal Status’ 100(2) American Journal of International Law. The prize is awarded annually for the leading article by a younger author in the AJIL.
• She has authored two books: On the Law of Peace: Peace Agreements and the Lex Pacificatoria (Oxford University Press, 2008) which won the Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize, awarded by the Socio-legal Studies Association UK, and Peace Agreements and Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2000).
• She is currently producing a book on PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End Wars.