Interested kin-ralliers, not neutral mediators, end fault line wars

Evidence

Fault line wars are ended not by disinterested individuals, groups, or organizations but by interested secondary and tertiary parties who have rallied to the support of their kin and have the capability to negotiate agreements with their counterparts, on the one hand, and to induce their kin to accept those agreements, on the other. While rallying intensifies and prolongs the war, it generally is also a necessary although not sufficient condition for limiting and halting the war. Secondary and tertiary ralliers usually do not want to be transformed into primary level fighters and hence try to keep the war under control. They also have more diversified interests than primary participants, who are exclusively focused on the war, and they are concerned with other issues in their relations with each other. Hence at some point they are likely to see it in their interest to stop the fighting. Because they have rallied behind their kin, they have leverage over their kin. Ralliers thus become restrainers and halters. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 805 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Civilizational kin allegiances drive fault-line conflicts to escalate far beyond their origins; Fault line wars involve more internal and cross-cutting parties than ordinary negotiations; Wars without kin-rallying parties are hardest to end (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Wars end through interested patrons, not neutral mediators. #corroborates (0.95) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 805