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:
  • Deltas Between Versions
  • Decision Log

Not a Comprehensive History of the War

• The book is mechanism-focused.
• Historical analogs and background essays are kept in: Background and Essays