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"Ukraine and Russia have held intermittent peace talks since the end of
February 2022, just days after Russia first launched a war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin squashed hope of an imminent peace deal on
April 12 when he said that the talks “have again returned to a dead-end
situation for us.”
Ukraine maintains that the discussions are still “taking place,” even as the
“negotiations are extremely difficult,” according to Ukrainian presidential
adviser Mykhailo Podolyak.
Russia’s continued attacks on the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, as well as
the mass murder of civilians in Bucha, make it hard to hold peace talks.
But as former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin once said, “You don’t make
peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.”
Peace talks are always a complex mix of strategic calculation and human
emotion.
In my 20 years of experience working on peace-building programs and researching
peace and conflict, I’ve learned that it’s important to pay attention to both
factors to understand why talks may – or may not – succeed."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
