Peace treaty

Agreement between hostile parties

A peace treaty is an agreement between two or more hostile parties, usually countries or governments, which formally ends a state of war between the parties. It is different from an armistice, which is an agreement to stop hostilities; a surrender, in which an army agrees to give up arms; or a ceasefire or truce, in which the parties may agree to temporarily or permanently stop fighting. The need for a peace treaty in diplomacy arises from the fact that even when a war is actually over and fighting has ceased, the legal and political state of war is not automatically terminated upon the end of actual fighting and the belligerent parties are still legally defined as enemies.

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