Timing Matters: How Conflict Duration Shapes Power-Sharing Quality and Peace Durability

• In Event: New Theories of Conflict Processes

Brief Overview

This study examines when civil war parties should sign peace agreements. It argues that medium conflict duration—the Goldilocks zone—produces the most durable peace by shaping the quality of commitments parties can make, from soft to hard provisions.

Author

• Musa Dankaz, Louisiana State University