Category Conflict and Peace

When a Ceasefire Has No Means of Enforcement

An empty monitoring room with a desk, notebook, and unlit lamp overlooks a divided landscape through a wide window.

What Minsk and Dayton reveal about monitoring, military guarantees, and the distance between stopping a war and securing peace A ceasefire can be watched without being kept. Monitors may record where fighting resumes, identify patterns of violation, and make denial…