Back-Channel Negotiations: Initial Steps toward Ending the Russian War in Ukraine
Journal: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG eBooks
Year: 2023

This paper outlines a proposal for opening back-channel pre-negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian officials on the margins of the OSCE in Vienna.It contends that preliminary, informal, and discreet conversations need to begin even before the violence ceases in order to lay the foundations for subsequent formal negotiations to end the Russian war in Ukraine and to negotiate a peace agreement that will prevent violent conflict from re-emerging in the future.Before the war ends and the conditi