Proscribing Peace

How Listing Armed Groups as Terrorists Hurts Negotiations

Sophie Haspeslagh

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Manchester University Press
07 September 2021

Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis

Parties in conflict have labelled opponents for centuries, but Proscribing peace explores how international proscription has solidified such judgments by creating a category that has both symbolic and material ramifications.

Sophie Haspeslagh draws on personal interviews and 20 years of statements by successive Colombian governments and the FARC to show how having stigmatised the armed group in such an extreme way, proscription makes it much harder to make peace with them. The branding of armed groups as 'terrorists' post 9/11 created a policy straitjacket for governments making it is more difficult to initiate negotiations with a listed group. This book develops the notion of the 'linguistic ceasefire' to explore how governments that claim they will never negotiate with terrorists end-up doing just that.

By: Sophie Haspeslagh
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 517g
ISBN: 9781526157591
ISBN 10: 1526157594
Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 07 September 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sophie Haspeslagh is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo

Reviews for Proscribing Peace: How Listing Armed Groups as Terrorists Hurts Negotiations

'This book will enter into the top row of inside stories on the Colombian FARC negotiations. Her sources were deep in the FARC, where no one goes, as well as the state. It will enter the academic literature on International Relations concepts, notably the matter of ripeness, to confirm how the process works in reality and how reality can add refinements to the concept, and how the strategy of proscription affects behaviour and outcomes. An exciting story and a penetrating analysis.' I. William Zartman, Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University -- .