Hoorcollege 7: Diplomacy, negotiation and peacemaking

Question 1

War endings

Answer 1

1. Victory
2. Ceasefire
3. Peace agreement
4. other outcomes like withdrawal for tactical reasons or due to change in leadership, shift to non-violent strategy, loss of an important ally, frozen conflicts where the battle deaths are under threshold of 25 per year

Question 2

War endings victory

Answer 2

When one side in an armed conflict is either defeated or eliminated, or otherwise succumbs through capitulation, surrender or similar public announcement

Question 3

War endings ceasefire

Answer 3

Agreement between all of the main actors in a conflict that terminates military operations. In contrast to peace agreements, ceasefires do not deal witht he incompatibility but refer to a mutual agreed end to hostilities.

Question 4

War endings peace agreement

Answer 4

Agreement concerned with the resolution of the incompatibility signed and/or publicly accepted by all, or the main, actors in a conflict. The agreement should address all, or the central issues of contention

Question 5

Conflict causes and war endings

Answer 5

When it comes to structural causes victory and other outcomes can sometimes fix this, ceasefire doesn’t and a peace agreement does.
When it comes to proximate causes all war endins fix this.

Question 6

War endings during Cold War period

Answer 6

Victory predominant type of conflict termination, after it has since become the least common category.

Question 7

War endings post Cold War period

Answer 7

Victories have become increasingly rare. Visible increase in peace agreements and ceasefires as well as other outcomes