Cold peace

A cold peace is a state of relative peace between two countries that is marked by the enforcement of a peace treaty ending the state of war while the government or populace of at least one of the parties to the treaty continues to treat the treaty with vocal disgust domestically. The term “cold peace” was first introduced in late 1982 by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who was then serving as a junior foreign minister and would later become UN Secretary-General. He used the phrase to refer to a situation in which peace existed in name, but efforts to deepen cooperation and foster connections between the two populations remained limited or intentionally restrained.

It is contrasted against a cold war in which at least two states are not openly pursuing a state of war against each other but openly or covertly support conflicts between each other's client states or allies. Cold peace, while marked by similar levels of mistrust and antagonistic domestic policy between the two governments and populations, do not result in proxy wars, formal incursions, or similar conflicts.

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