Addendum to the Alafia Doukire and Salam Municipal Peace Charter

• Country/entity

  Mali
  
• Region

  Africa (excl MENA)
  
• Agreement name

  Addendum to the Alafia Doukire and Salam Municipal Peace Charter
• Date

  9 Mar 2019
• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed
• Interim arrangement

  Yes
• Agreement/conflict level

  Intrastate/local conflict ( Mali: Dogon-Fulani and other local conflicts (2015 -) )
• Stage

  Implementation/renegotiation
• Conflict nature

  Inter-group
• Peace process

  Mali Local Processes
• Parties

  Signed
  
  
  
  For Alafia
  
  [seven signed names in original document]
  
  For Douékiré
  
  [five signed names in original document]
  
  For Salam
  
  [ten signed names in original document]
• Third parties

  No third parties have signed the document, however, HD Center for Humanitarian Dialogue have been present as mediators.
  
  Page 2, untitled preamble:
  We, the communities of Alafia, Douekire, and Salam, hereinafter referred to as the parties;
  
  Recognizing the value of the charter signed on January 28 in Douekire following talks in Timbuktu and Taoudeni, facilitated by the center for humanitarian dialogue;
  
  ...
  
  Have met in Tintelout as part of the mediation undertaken for 1 month by the Center for humanitarian dialogue, in support of the charter of January 2018, and agree on the following.
• Description

  This agreement is a renegotiation and extension of existing peace charter, in which the parties agree to ensure access to to roads, renounce banditry and violence, to jointly establish a natural resource management charter, and to form a nine-member board to support the work of the monitoring committee established in the existing peace charter.

• Agreement document

  ML_190309_Addendum to the Alafia Doukire and Salam Municipal Peace Charter_tr.pdf | Download PDF
• Agreement document (original language)

  ML_190309_Addendum to the Alafia Doukire and Salam Municipal Peace Charter.pdf | Download PDF

Local agreement properties

• Process type

  Formal structured process
  
• Rationale

  The process that led to the signing of this agreement was supported by the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. This is an addendum to the earlier 'Peace Charter of the communes of Alafia Doukeire and Salam' of 28/01/2018.
• Is there a documented link to a national peace process?

  No
• Link to national process: articulated rationale

  The agreement was negotiated outside of the national-level peace process as it deals with intercommunal, local conflict. The parties to this agreement are not part of the national-level peace negotiation framework.
• Name of Locale

  Alafia, Doukeire, and Salam municipalities, particularly the Timbuktu-Goundam axis
• Nature Of Locale

  Region
• GPS Lat/Long (DD)

  16.648000, -3.244000
• Participant type

  International or transnational actor
  Domestic religious organisation/leader or other elder
  
• Mediator, facilitator or similar

  Mediator or similar referred to
  Mediator (references)

  Mediator: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
  Type of mediator/facilitator/similar

  International or transnational actor

Local issues

Addendum to the January 2018 Charter for the consolidation of peace in the municipalities of Alafia, Douekire, and Salam:

Securing the movement of people on the Timbuktu-Goundam axis and concerted management of natural resources

March 2019

Preamble:

We, the communities of Alafia, Douekire, and Salam, hereinafter referred to as the parties;

Recognizing the value of the charter signed on January 28 in Douekire following talks in Timbuktu and Taoudeni, facilitated by the center for humanitarian dialogue;

Aware of the deterioration of the social fabric since the signing of the charter for peace on January 28, 2018, and that our disputes have taken a violent turn with the proliferation of weapons;

Conscious of the importance of the role of the monitoring committee set up under the charter of January 28, 2018, and wishing to support it;

Have met in Tintelout as part of the mediation undertaken for 1 month by the Center for humanitarian dialogue, in support of the charter of January 2018, and agree on the following.

Chapter I:

Commitments of the communities

Article 1:

commitments to secure movement

The Parties commit to working collectively to secure the movement of populations on the roads of their municipalities, and mainly on the Timbuktu-Goundam axis.

More specifically, the parties commit to:

Fighting against banditry in all its forms;

Encouraging young people to abandon all forms of self-policing

Dissociating themselves from young people who commit acts of violence

Investing in the success of the monitoring committee's missions towards securing movement.

Article 2:

commitments to managing tensions related to natural resources

To facilitate the implementation of paragraph 5 of the January 2018 charter, the parties agree to:

Establish a natural resource management charter

Investing in the success of the monitoring committee's work surrounding access to natural resources.

Chapter II:

Guarantees and support

Article 3:

To monitor the implementation of the commitments, the monitoring committee will be supported by a board of nine members (three nationals of Alafia, three from Douekire and three from Salam) who will be appointed by consensus from among the members of the committee.

This team will be responsible for:

Regularly updating the Parties on the progress made in implementing the commitments made under this Addendum in order to strengthen its scope;

Notifying the monitoring committee of behavior that could lead to non-compliance with the January 2018 Charter or this Addendum

Chapter III:

Final provisions

Article 4:

This Addendum comes into force from the date of signature.

Tintelout, March 09, 2019

Signed

For Alafia

[seven signed names in original document]

For Douékiré

[five signed names in original document]

For Salam

[ten signed names in original document]