Peace treaty
Agreement between two or more hostile parties, usually countries or governments, which formally ends a state of war between the parties.
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Conflict resolution
Conceptualized as the methods and processes involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of conflict and retribution.
Conceptualized as the methods and processes involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of conflict and retribution.
Wars can conclude with a peace agreement, which is a "formal agreement... which addresses the disputed incompatibility, either by settling all or part of it, or by clearly outlining a process for how [...] to regulate the incompatibility."
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles (Traité de Versailles; Versailler Vertrag, ) was the most important of the peace treaties of World War I.
Peace of Westphalia
The Peace of Westphalia (Westfälischer Friede, ) is the collective name for two peace treaties signed in October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster.
Paris Peace Accords
The Paris Peace Accords, (Hiệp định Paris về Việt Nam) officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam (Hiệp định về chấm dứt chiến tranh, lập lại hòa bình ở Việt Nam), was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War.
Armistice
Formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting.
Formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting.
An armistice is a modus vivendi and is not the same as a peace treaty, which may take months or even years to agree on.
Surrender (military)
Relinquishment of control over territory, combatants, fortifications, ships or armament to another power.
Relinquishment of control over territory, combatants, fortifications, ships or armament to another power.
A sovereign state may surrender following defeat in a war, usually by signing a peace treaty or capitulation agreement.
Ceasefire
Temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions.
Temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions.
Ceasefires may be abused by parties as cover to re-arm or reposition forces, and they typically fail, when they are referred to as 'failed ceasefires'; however, successful ceasefires may be followed by armistices and then by peace treaties.
Treaty
Formal, legally binding written agreement between actors in international law.
Formal, legally binding written agreement between actors in international law.
A treaty typically begins with a preamble describing the "High Contracting Parties" and their shared objectives in executing the treaty, as well as summarizing any underlying events (such as the aftermath of a war in the case of a peace treaty).
Kellogg–Briand Pact
The Kellogg–Briand Pact or Pact of Paris – officially the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy – is a 1928 international agreement on peace in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them".
Ramesses II
The third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
The third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
The ensuing document is the earliest known peace treaty in world history.