A core factor that tends to make impunity appealing in peace processes and transitions, however, is that leaders who form the lynchpin of the entire State need to be incentivised to loosen their grip on power, which is what we’re seeing now in Syria, for example. That being said, it is unclear whether impunity was ultimately beneficial in the case of Yemen, nor did it help with the closing of the fifteen-year-long Lebanese civil war in 1990. Omar al-Bashir had successfully created a regime apparatus that was larger than him, often referred to as the “Ingaz system”…