TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Border settlement and the movement toward and from negative peace
JO  - Conflict management and peace science
A1  - Owsiak, Andrew P.
A1  - Diehl, Paul F.
A1  - Goertz, Gary
SP  - 176
EP  - 193
VL  - 34
IS  - 2
N2  - How does border settlement--that is, the management of salient territorial conflict--affect the prospects for negative peace? Using recently released data on dyadic interstate relationships during the period 1946-2001, we build on territorial peace research to argue, predict, and find three connections between border settlement and negative peace. More specifically, border settlement: (a) increases the likelihood that a dyad is at negative peace; (b) raises the likelihood that dyads transition from rivalry to negative peace relationships; and (c) consolidates negative peace--by impeding transitions toward rivalry relationships. We confirm each of these findings with a commonly used measure of border settlement, as well as an alternative indicator of unsettled borders: civil wars. These findings cumulatively support our argument, demonstrate the importance of studying relationships outside the rivalry context, and suggest that border settlement plays a critical role in the emergence and consolidation of negative peace.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0738-8942
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0738894216650420
ID  - ref1
ER  -