Peace agreements without commitment

Peace agreements without commitment

In this paper we present a model of war between two rational and completely informed players. We show that in the absence of binding agreements war can be avoided in many cases by one player transferring money to the other player. In most cases, the "rich" country transfers part of her money to the "poor" country. Only when the military pro…ciency of the "rich" country is su¢ ciently large, the...

Agreements Without Disagreements

The first part of this paper presents a coalition formation method for multi-agent systems which finds a Pareto optimal solution without aggregating the preferences of the agents. This protocol is adapted to problems requiring coordination by coalition formation, where it is undesirable, or not possible, to aggregate the preferences of the agents. The second part proposes an extension of this m...

Rights and Commitment in Multi-Agent Agreements

For agents to act in collaboration they often require an agreement that describes how they are to act to which they are committed Typically agreements are characterised as an explicit course of action or a goal to be achieved In this paper it is argued such agreements may over specify the interaction required To overcome this problem a novel formalisation of agreements be tween agents is presen...

Implementing the Peace: The Aggregate Implementation of Comprehensive Peace Agreements and Peace Duration after Intrastate Armed Conict

Distributive justice and the durability of peace agreements

This study explores the relationship between principles of distributive justice (DJ) and the durability of negotiated agreements. Sixteen peace agreements negotiated during the early 1990s were coded for the centrality of each of four principles of DJ – equality, proportionality, compensation, and need – to the core terms of the agreement. The agreements were also assessed on scales of implemen...