What This Is Not
This chapter prevents category errors. Freeze–Vote–Rebuild is a framework for a process, not a final settlement text.
Not a Negotiated Agreement
- This is not a signed treaty, ceasefire document, or peace accord.
- It provides a design for how such instruments can be sequenced and verified.
Not a Promise of Outcomes
- The framework does not guarantee a particular territorial, political, or justice outcome.
- “Status-neutral” means the process does not pre-commit to an endpoint; it does not mean outcomes are morally equivalent.
Not a Substitute for Security Guarantees
- The framework can include security arrangements, but it is not itself a security guarantee.
- Any guarantees, deterrence postures, or force commitments must be negotiated separately and made explicit.
Not “Trust-Based”
- The mechanism assumes distrust and builds around it.
- Compliance is measured; incentives are conditional; rollback is defined.
Not “Reconstruction Later”
- Reconstruction is designed as a structured phase with governance, incentives, and audits.
- The intent is to make rebuild fast, measurable, and difficult to capture, rather than a vague future promise.
Not a Plan that Ignores Displaced People
- Electorate inclusion of displaced persons is a core design requirement, not an optional feature.
Not Legal Advice
- Legal considerations are discussed to clarify pathways and constraints, not to provide legal counsel.
- Any real-world implementation would require jurisdiction-specific legal review.
Not a Single-Author Doctrine
- Source drafts differ in tone and emphasis (operational memo vs narrative essay vs variant framing).
- This GitBook unifies them into an auditable structure and records differences in:
Not a Comprehensive History of the War
- The book is mechanism-focused.
- Historical analogs and background essays are kept in: Background and Essays
