“…Third, it is well established that power-sharing decreases the risk of civil war recurrence (Derouen et al, 2009;Hartzell, 2009;Mattes and Savun, 2009;Ottoman and Vüllers, 2015), even if this effect can be conditional on the exact design of power-sharing institutions or contextual factors (Cammett and Malesky, 2012;Gates et al, 2016;Mukherjee, 2006;Ohmura, 2011;Pospieszna and Schneider, 2013). Moreover, other provisions that can be conceived as a form of power-sharing, like the holding of elections (Flores and Nooruddin, 2012;Keels, 2017) 11 and democratic reform (Keels, 2018;Shair-Rosenfield and Wood, 2017;Walter, 2015) can under some conditions lead to more durable peace. The key underlying mechanism behind this association is that power-sharing provisions work as "fear-reducing provisions" that help the peace agreement's signatories to overcome credible commitment problems (Mattes and Savun, 2009: 740-741).…”