Armistice

<h2 id="international-law">International law</h2>
<p>Under <a href="/facts/International_law/WJEPeq44">international law</a>, an armistice is a legal agreement (often in a document) that ends fighting between the "belligerent parties" of a war or conflict.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> At the <a href="/facts/Hague_Convention_of_1899/h61yeIjd">Hague Convention of 1899</a>, three <a href="/facts/Treaties/KCfhDfDV">treaties</a> were agreed and three declarations made. The <i><a href="/facts/Convention_with_respect_to_the_Laws_and_Customs_of_War_on_Land/h61yeIjd">Convention with respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land</a></i> stated, "If [the armistice's] duration is not fixed," the parties may resume fighting (Article 36) as they choose but with proper notifications. That is in comparison to a "fixed duration" armistice in which the parties may renew fighting only at the end of the particular fixed duration. When the belligerent parties say in effect that "this armistice completely ends the fighting" without any end date for the armistice, the duration of the armistice is fixed in the sense that no resumption of the fighting is allowed at any time. For example, the Korean Armistice Agreement calls for a "ceasefire and armistice" and has the "objective of establishing an armistice which will ensure a complete cessation of hostilities and of all acts of armed force in Korea until a final peaceful settlement is achieved."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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<h2 id="armistice-day">Armistice Day</h2>
<p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/Armistice_Day/SaRNYtxL">Armistice Day</a></p>
<p>Armistice Day (which coincides with <a href="/facts/Remembrance_Day/NqLRJoaX">Remembrance Day</a> and <a href="/facts/Veterans_Day/lVUvfffG">Veterans Day</a>, public holidays) is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the <a href="/facts/Armistice_of_11_November_1918/xDvqSpuq">Armistice of 11 November 1918</a> signed between the <a href="/facts/Allies_of_World_War_I/HBo9sw1M">Allies of World War I</a> and the <a href="/facts/German_Empire/lwQutJyN">German Empire</a> at <a href="/facts/Compi%25C3%25A8gne/2oaFSe1f">Compiègne</a>, <a href="/facts/France/CxIeIKM3">France</a>, for the cessation of hostilities on the <a href="/facts/Western_Front_(World_War_I)/RrhMPVQP">Western Front</a> of <a href="/facts/World_War_I/vITTUanQ">World War I</a>, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning, the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918.
</p><p>Most countries changed the name of the holiday after World War II to honor veterans of that and subsequent conflicts. Most member states of the <a href="/facts/Commonwealth_of_Nations/TcIRQnNq">Commonwealth of Nations</a> adopted the name Remembrance Day, and the United States chose Veterans Day.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
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<li>Peace portal</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_armistices/R2Q8TRnd">List of armistices</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Negotiation/QyUsoN6M">Negotiation</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Alternative_dispute_resolution/h0SegYME">Alternative dispute resolution</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

Look up <i>armistice</i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

<ul><li><a href="http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/armisticeterms.htm">"Allied Armistice Terms, 11 November 1918"</a>. <i>The War to End All Wars</i>. FirstWorldWar.com. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070202052147/http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/armisticeterms.htm">Archived</a> from the original on 2 February 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2007.</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130602140605/http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~dreiter/LHR%20IO%2008%20codebook.pdf">The Expanded Cease-Fires Data Set Code Book (Emory University)</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Fisher, Allan G. B. (1944). "The Concept of a "Cooling-Off Period"". American Political Science Review. 38 (1): 104–110. doi:10.2307/1949428. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1949428. S2CID 147574315. <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S000305540004332X/type/journal_article" target="_blank">https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S000305540004332X/type/journal_article</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Armistice". Dictionary.com. <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/armistice?s=t" target="_blank">http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/armistice?s=t</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Hague Convention of 1899 specifically, Laws of War: Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague II); 29 July 1899; Chapter V. <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/hague02.asp" target="_blank">http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/hague02.asp</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>"FindLaw: Korean War Armistice Agreement: July 27, 1953". news.findlaw.com. <a href="http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/korea/kwarmagr072753.html" target="_blank">http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/korea/kwarmagr072753.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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