Proscribing Peace
How Listing Armed Groups As Terrorists Hurts Negotiations
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Proscribing peace shows how the listing of armed groups as terrorists has made pre-negotiations harder and more prolonged. Drawing on fieldwork in Colombia during the negotiation with the FARC, Sophie Haspeslagh introduces the concept of 'linguistic ceasefire' which becomes a central pre-condition for the initiation of a peace process. -- .