US Institute of Peace 50 years after a peace accord that wasn’t, one-time enemies salve a long war’s wounds.
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 / BY: USIP Staff PUBLICATION TYPE: Analysis and Commentary
This winter marks 50 years since U.S. and Vietnamese diplomats in Paris ceremoniously signed “peace accords” that did not end the Vietnam War, but that achieved America’s withdrawal from it. Thus, the accords permitted, a half-century later, what is now a durable American-Vietnamese reconciliation. In the face of seemingly intractable wars — in Ukraine, Afghanistan, the eastern Congo basin, Yemen or elsewhere — the growing U.S.-Vietnamese relationship shows that even a peace that seems impossible today can indeed be built for our children.
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