{"id":29,"date":"2024-04-04T05:34:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T02:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/defactostates\/exploring-dynamics-frozen-conflicts\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T08:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T06:42:31","slug":"exploring-dynamics-frozen-conflicts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/defactostates\/exploring-dynamics-frozen-conflicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Dynamics of \u201cFrozen Conflicts\u201d through Actor-based Interactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Project funded by Estonian Research Council Grant No. PRG1798, 2023-2027<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cFrozen conflicts\u201d has been an oft exploited phrase by policymakers and the media in reference to those unresolved conflicts where possibility for violence remains. It refers to situations where the adversaries have become locked in a stand-off because no party is willing or able to unilaterally change the status quo. In this way, the conflict \u201cfreezes\u201d with the ceasefire agreement (the Western Sahara War 1991, the Transnistrian conflict 1992, the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict 1993, the First Karabakh War 1994, the War in Donbas 2015), or where parent state was forced to accept new reality on the ground (retreat of Chinese nationalists to Taiwan 1949, the Turkish intervention in Cyprus 1974, the Somaliland War of Independence 1991, NATO operation Allied Force in Kosovo 1999).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">As frozen conflicts are tightly connected with the occurrence of de facto states \u2013 sovereignty claimants supported by external powers, then with this project we aim to situate, explore, and explain the role of de facto states and other actors in shaping the conflict dynamics. Hence, the overarching question the project tackles is: what factors determine the trajectories of frozen conflicts\u00a0involving the issues of de facto statehood? More specifically, under what circumstances do frozen conflicts: <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">remain relatively stable with \u201cno war, no peace\u201d status quo for long stretches of time;<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">descend into renewed violent conflict; or<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">come close to or achieve conflict resolution.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">We aim to combine the project team\u2019s case-based knowledge of de facto state conflicts through a cross-case comparison, and to explore and explain the conditions leading to certain outcomes. Separately, we will put into focus the issue of left-behind minorities in the conflict dynamics between parent states and de facto states. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project funded by Estonian Research Council Grant No. PRG1798, 2023-2027 \u201cFrozen conflicts\u201d has been an oft exploited phrase by policymakers and the media in reference to those unresolved conflicts where possibility for violence remains. It refers to situations where the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/defactostates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/defactostates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/defactostates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/defactostates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/defactostates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/defactostates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/defactostates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/defactostates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}