Valerie Morkevicius Associate Professor, Political Science, Colgate University By this Author Dec 31, 2025 Getting peace right: Why justice needs to be baked into ceasefire agreements — including Ukraine'sIs peace worth having if it's unjust? Is justice worth pursuing if it prolongs war? Those are questions as troubling as they are old. Ceasefires built on coercion or exhaustion inevitably fail because they do not resolve the conflict's causes.
