Key Research Resources
Research that shaped CEASEFIRE!
CEASEFIRE! is grounded in scholarship and practice on humanitarian negotiation, ceasefire politics, emotions, empathy and learning. Below are some of the core resources that informed the design of the game.
Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiations (CCHN), Field Manual on Frontline Humanitarian Negotiations.
View CCHN Field ManualCCHN blog series on emotions and humanitarian negotiation.
Govinda Clayton, Simon J.A. Mason, Valerie Sticher, and Andreas Wenger (Eds.), Ceasefires: Stopping the Violence and Negotiating Peace (Georgetown University Press, 2025).
Govinda Clayton, Pause for Thought: Contemporary Ceasefire Politics (HD Oslo Forum Background Paper, 2025).
Harvard Program on Negotiation, ‘Expanding the Pie’.
View Expanding the PieMarika Sosnowski, Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria (CUP 2023).
PeaceRep PA-X Database.
View PA-X DatabasePeaceRep ceasefires research.
View PeaceRep ceasefires researchRob Grace, “The Humanitarian as Negotiator: Developing Capacity Across the Aid Sector”, Negotiation Journal, 36(1), 2020.
Rob Grace, “Humanitarian Negotiation with Parties to Armed Conflict: The Role of Laws and Principles in the Discourse”, Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, 11(1), 2020
Rebecca Sutton, “Read the Room: Legal and Emotional Literacy in Frontline Humanitarian Negotiations”, Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, 24, 2023.
Rebecca Sutton, “How the Emotions and Perceptual Judgments of Frontline Practitioners Shape the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law”, in Bandes et al. (Eds.), Research Handbook on Law and Emotion, Edward Elgar, 2021.
Rebecca Sutton and Emiliano Buis, “Humanitarianism and Affected-Based Education: Emotional Experiences at the Jean Pictet Competition”, International Review of the Red Cross, 105(923), 2023.
Rebecca Sutton and Emily Paddon Rhoads, “Empathy in Frontline Humanitarian Negotiations: A Relational Approach to Engagement”, Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7(23), 2022.
Sophie Haspeslagh, “The ‘Linguistic Ceasefire’: Negotiating in an Age of Proscription”, Security Dialogue, 52(4), 2021.
On protecting education from attack in armed conflict, the game relied on the Safe Schools Declaration, the work of the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack , and UN Security Resolutions addressing issues such as military use of schools (see UNSC RES 2601 and 2573)