Negotiated Settlements in Conflict Resolution - Charles Call

"Peace agreements are important. And they're dangerous." In two cases (Angola in 1991 and Rwanda in 1993), peace agreements were followed by violence that caused more lives than the war the agreements were meant to stop.
Before the end of the Cold War, very few civil wars ended in negotiated settlements. In the post-Cold War era the norm of negotiated settlement as a way to end civil war became popular. But they have a higher rate of recurrence of violence than when one side attains victory. Why?
In approximately 85% of failed peace agreements, postwar governments engaged in exclusionary behavior that violated the expectations that the other side had and drove them to pick up arms again.
Dr. Charles "Chuck" Call expands on this and a number of other key insights, drawing on numerous examples, to explain what makes peace agreement succeed or fail.
CHAPTERS
0:31 - Some Notable Failures: Angola 1991 & Rwanda 1993
1:57 - Some Notable Successes
2:55 - Agreements are Enforced through Institutions
4:20 - The Case of South Sudan
5:16 - Why Peace Agreements Fail: Structural Risk Factors
7:30 - Why Peace Agreements Fail: Exclusionary Behavior
12:13 - Factors for Implementation Success/Failure
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