You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.
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You don't make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.
You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
You never want conflict. But sometimes conflict is inevitable.
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.