Conclusions
摘要
The concluding chapter reflects how the presence of HUSSS conditions in negotiations impacts conflict intractability, signaling the need to update and remodel the conceptualization of intractable conflicts from the understanding of it as a static and protracted space to a dynamic space. The studied case of Venezuela shows how conditions of HUSSS not only contributed to the collapse of negotiations but also consolidated intractability, facilitating the strengthening of an autocratic regime despite multiple negotiation efforts, some pressures from the international community, investigations into crimes against humanity, indictments on drug trafficking, and massive domestic mobilizations. In a new international geopolitical context of predatory negotiations, examining conflicts and crises through the HUSSS framework offers lessons on the unintended consequences of applying old traditional approaches to new conflict dynamics—consequences that likely entrench intractability. This chapter concludes that HUSSS is part of the discussion on rethinking the concept of intractability.