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  • 4 - Different Types of Ceasefires

  • Marika Sosnowski, University of Melbourne and German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg
  • Book:
    Redefining Ceasefires
    Published online:
    11 May 2023
    Print publication:
    25 May 2023, pp 63-90

  • Summary

    More and more research is being done that attempts to explain the characteristics, dynamics and consequences of ceasefires. However, in general, ceasefires still remain primarily seen as a way to stop or reduce the overt use of violence and as a preliminary and provisional step in a teleology from war towards peace. Based on the text of ceasefire agreements and the military and political power disparity between signatories at the time an agreement is signed, this chapter presents a broader way of defining and categorising ceasefires. In doing this, the assumption is the mirror image of Carl von Clausewitz’s famous dictum that war is politics by other means. Actors in civil wars do not only use violence as a way to annihilate their opponents but also use ceasefires to influence a range of other contested areas where actors (armed and other) hope to assert their authority i.e. “peace” or ceasefires are perhaps war by other means too.