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The Thirty-Eight— Last-resort arbitration and final terms settlement. The Thirty-Eight operates at the end of the process — when every other mediator has failed, when the parties have already tried violence and found it unsatisfying, when what remains is either a final settlement or a war that everyone involved will lose. The Thirty-Eight is the option before the war.
Every settlement that The Thirty-Eight has witnessed has held. Not all of them were good settlements — some of them were arrangements that made reasonable pe…