The Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement, widely known as the Arusha Accords (french: links=no, Accords d'Arusha), was a transitional
peace treaty
A peace treaty is an agreement between two or more hostile parties, usually countries or governments, which formally ends a state of war between the parties. It is different from an armistice
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signed on 28 August 2000 which brought the
Burundian Civil War
The Burundian Civil War was a civil war in Burundi lasting from 1993 to 2005. The civil war was the result of longstanding Ethnic conflict, ethnic divisions between the Hutu and the Tutsi ethnic groups. The conflict began following the first Mult ...
to an end between most armed groups. Negotiations for the agreement were mediated by former Tanzanian president
Julius Nyerere
Julius Kambarage Nyerere (; 13 April 1922 – 14 October 1999) was a Tanzanian anti-colonial activist, politician, and political theorist. He governed Tanganyika as prime minister from 1961 to 1962 and then as president from 1962 to 1964, af ...
from 1996 until his death in October 1999, and thereafter by former South African president
Nelson Mandela.
The Accords were based on four points of agreement:
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#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 2005 ]Constitution of Burundi
The Constitution of Burundi was adopted by referendum on February 28, 2005 and promulgated on March 18, 2005.
On May 12, 2017, a draft revision of the constitution of Burundi was announced. The final draft was announced on October 25, 2017, and p ...
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Notes
:a.Further parties that had not participated in the talks continued to fight. CNDD-FDD continued fighting until a separate ceasefire agreement was reached in 2002 and Palipehutu-FNL reached a further ceasefire agreement in 2006.
References
External links
Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement for Burundi
(original text) at the Brookings Institution
2000 treaties
2000 in Burundi
Political history of Burundi
Burundian Civil War
Arusha
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