Center for Security Studies

Costs and Cover: Explaining the Onset of Ceasefires in Civil Conflict

Costs and Cover: Explaining the Onset of Ceasefires in Civil Conflict

Author(s): Govinda Clayton, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Siri Aas Rustad, Håvard Strand
Journal Title: Journal of Conflict Resolution
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications
Publication Year: 2022

There is little comparative analysis of why and under what conditions ceasefires occur. In their article for the Journal of Conflict Resolution, CSS’ Govinda Clayton, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Siri Aas Rustad and Håvard Strand argue that conflict parties are more likely to accept the costs associated with a ceasefire when the conflict costs are greater, for example when violence is intense, there are higher levels of ‘collateral damage’, and the parties lack international support.
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