Negotiating peace in the shadows

Niall O. Dochartaigh

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-82962-9_14

Negotiating peace in the shadows

Niall O. Dochartaigh

Political Science & Sociology

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Back-channel negotiations are a ubiquitous feature of peace processes and were crucial to high-profile peace agreements in the 1990s in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland and South Africa. Secret communication is especially valuable in highly ideologically charged and intractable conflicts where open contact is politically impossible. The chapter discusses the motivations for covert contact, outlining how it increases the clarity of communication and provides a way for long-time enemies to establish the authority of opposing leaders, to discuss proposals without making strong public commitments and to develop the limited trust on which a settlement can ultimately be built.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Contemporary Peacemaking
Subtitle of host publication	Peace Processes, Peacebuilding and Conflict
Publisher	Springer
Pages	261-285
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030829629
ISBN (Print)	9783030829612
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82962-9_14
Publication status	Published - 12 Jan 2022

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