Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
On lasting peace, durable peace, I'm going to start with you, Ms. Wistrand. It seems that over the past 100 years whichever party has had the upper hand has obviously dominated the territory and then caused flows of migration. You outlined in your testimony certain steps, at least interim steps, to try to get to the point of discussing lasting peace.
I have a two-part question. When was the last time there was either stability or lasting peace?
I know there was stability perhaps in the Soviet time period, but was that enforced stability by a stronger third hand?
Was there a pre-1920s period of stability, and what was that based on, territory or peoples? Will a durable peace come about from a picking of a time...because the mass migrations forced IDPs from both sides of the conflicts?
I'm looking for a vision of lasting peace. What will be the basis of it: territory or people? By “people”, I mean “ethnicity”? I recognize that both of those are intertwined.