Peace Agreement Provisions and the Durability of Peace
This study analyzes empirical research on the relationship between the content of negotiated civil war peace agreements and the subsequent duration of peace. It focuses specifically upon quantitative studies that apply statistical techniques to analyze databases containing decades of civil war peace agreements.
The relationship between the content of negotiated civil war peace agreements and the subsequent duration of peace is a research area of direct practical relevance to mediators, who can and do influence the design of peace agreements by introducing options from comparative cases. Due to a general lack of familiarity among mediation practitioners with quantitative methods, lessons from this area of research may so far be underutilized as compared to case study and other more qualitative methods.