Aggressors with impunity lack incentive to accept peace plans
Evidence
Whatever the virtues of the Vance-Owen plan itself, Owen cannot bring himself to confront the reality that the Bosnian Serb side had no incentive to accept a just peace plan as long as it could carry out its aggression with impunity, backed secretly by the regular Serb army and openly by Serb militias, against a Bosnian opponent that was vastly inferior in military strength. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 597
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Outbidders may damage a peace process only as a byproduct of attacking intragroup rivals. — Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Roger Macginty, Ethnic Outbidding and Party…, 31