The Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement, widely known as the Arusha Accords (French), was a transitional peace treaty which brought the Burundian Civil War to an end[citation needed]. The agreement, negotiated in Arusha, Tanzania under the mediation of former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere, were signed on 28 August 2000.[1]
The Accords were based on four points of agreement:[1]
- A power-sharing formula, based on an agreed formula of ethnic quotas in politics
- Representation of all parties in the state bureaucracy
- Constitutional restrictions to prevent any single party becoming excessively powerful
- Pathways to integrate former rebels and minority groups in the Burundian armed forces.
The central tenets of the Arusha Accords were subsequently added to the Constitution of Burundi.[1]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Nantulya, Paul (5 August 2015). "Burundi: Why the Arusha Accords are Central". https://africacenter.org/spotlight/burundi-why-the-arusha-accords-are-central/. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
External links[]
- Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement for Burundi (original text) at the Brookings Institution
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