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Peacemaking in Civil Wars

In: Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts

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  • Timothy D. Sisk

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In the past decade, many more armed conflicts than before ended at the negotiating table instead of on the battlefield. Over the course of the entire twentieth century, very few conflicts, about one in five, were settled in peace talks; one side or the other eventually emerged victorious and imposed a peace on the vanquished. However, in the period 1990–2000 as much as half of the armed conflicts that ended were silenced as a result of a negotiated agreement, nearly a threefold increase over the previous era. The more assertive role taken by the international community in peacemaking is at least one reason for this change of trend in war termination. Greater consensus among the great powers enabled more vigorous United Nations and regional peacemaking (or mediation), leading to a higher proportion of negotiated settlements. This chapter analyses three sets of findings emanating from peacemaking in the civil wars of the 1990s and early 2000s.

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  • Timothy D. Sisk, 2004. "Peacemaking in Civil Wars," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Ulrich Schneckener & Stefan Wolff (ed.), Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts, chapter 14, pages 248-270, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-07814-8_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-07814-8_14
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    1. Nina Caspersen, 2013. "The South Caucasus after Kosovo: Renewed Independence Hopes?," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 65(5), pages 929-945, July.

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