FNL最终停火协议

The FNL final ceasefire of 2006 marked the point at which Burundi’s long civil war moved from incomplete settlement toward a plausible end. Its importance lies not simply in the signing ceremony itself, but in the fact that the Palipehutu-FNL was the last major armed group still outside the broader peace framework. The ceasefire shows how wars often end not with one grand agreement, but when the final holdout is brought into a process that remains fragile, delayed, and contested. It was historically important because it extended the peace architecture to the last major rebel movement, raised difficult questions of demobilization and political reintegration, and helped transform Burundi’s conflict from active insurgency into a struggle over implementation. It is a key case of how ceasefire agreements function less as endings than as thresholds into a different kind of political conflict.