Background & Essays Overview

This section preserves narrative and audience-specific materials that informed Freeze–Vote–Rebuild but are not part of the core technical specification.

The purpose is twofold:

• Maintain Auditability: Keep the core chapters mechanism-focused and technically neutral.
• Retain Persuasive Context: Preserve the strategic framings, variants, and contextual essays required for diverse stakeholder outreach.

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What Belongs Here

• Advocacy-Oriented Essays: (e.g., strategic realist framing for US policy audiences).
• Alternative Rhetorical Framings: (e.g., moral, diplomatic, or papal-variant framings).
• Historical Analogies: Comparative cases and lessons learned from past conflicts.
• Contextual Background: Material needed for high-level presentations and diplomatic outreach.

What Does Not Belong Here

• Operational Gate Definitions: These must remain in the technical chapters.
• Binding Procedures: Monitoring, voting, or reconstruction rules.
• Core Verification Rules: These must remain neutral and inspectable.

Technical chapters are located in:

• Freeze Phase
• Vote Phase
• Rebuild Phase
• Governance & Verification

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Essays Included

• American Realism & The Strategic Off-Ramp: Framing the framework for US strategic interests.
• The Papal Origin / French Variant: Alternative rhetorical framing and background on the framework's origins.
• Historical Analogs: Learning from previous supervised settlement processes.

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Drafting Note

As these pages are populated from source drafts:

1. Preserve Original Tone: Maintain the specific audience targeting of each essay.
2. Contextualize: Add a short “How this maps to the core” note at the top of each essay to link it to the FVR mechanics.
3. Transparency: Avoid silently changing argumentative claims; keep edits focused on formatting and clarity to preserve the original author's intent.