Negotiating Peace Agreements: The Value of Focal and Turning Points

Valerie Rosoux () and Daniel Druckman ()
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Valerie Rosoux: National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS)
Daniel Druckman: George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government

Chapter Chapter 7 in Focal Points in Negotiation, 2019, pp 149-173 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter investigates how focal points and turning points in negotiations affect and relate to one another. Surveyed negotiations include the agreement in 2000 between the German government and international organizations over compensation for victims of the Nazis; negotiations in South Africa on the Truth and reconciliation commission (1986–2003); the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement on the civil war in Burundi; and the Noumea Accord between France and New Caledonia in 1998. Though the study finds no necessary causal relation between focal points and turning points, it does indicate that the presence of more precise and more specific focal points tends to lead to more sustainable agreements, particularly when these are accompanied by turning points.

Keywords: Turning points; Reconciliation; Truth commissions; Arusha agreement; Noumea accord; Victim compensation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27901-1_7

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