History Main / PeaceConference

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Diana manages to force peace talks between the Saturnian Empire, Paradise Island and the United States before the Empire launches its full scale attack. While this does result in a treaty the Empire only intends to follow it to the letter and is poised to take advantage of any perceived breach by the other signers.

* ''Fanfic/EarthsAlienHistory'': In 2226, the [[TheAlliance Terran Treaty Organization]] hosts a peace summit in its capital, Stockholm, which is attended by all its member states, the Klingons, and the Romulans (the Citadel Council also sends observers, though they're considered a [[VestigialEmpire spent force]] by that point and not serious players). The purpose of the summit is officially to merely solve outstanding political disputes and deescalate tensions among the major powers of local space, but in truth, it's to disclose to all involved governments the danger posed by the impending Reaper invasion.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals 2'':
** Most of the world's politicians and diplomats go to one of these... And [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror thanks to terrorists]], [[BoardToDeath they don't come back]], leaving the eponymous [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Generals to seize control of all the nations.]]
** In the first game, one mission starts with a UN negotiator arriving at a conference with the GLA... and the GLA attacks, pretty much ForTheEvulz (later in the mission, they also destroy a dam that wipes out part of a town).

* ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}'' states at the beginning that the first appearance of the Heaven Smiles were at a World Peace Conference. The video accompanying it shows one of them detonating during a signing ceremony.
* One mission in the Allied campaign in the Yuri's Revenge expansion to ''VideoGame/RedAlert2'' centres around a peace conference between the Allies and the Soviets, with the aim to stop shooting at each other and focus on shooting at Yuri's forces. Despite Yuri's attempts to interfere or taking advantage of most world leaders being gathered in London, it succeeds.
* In the Soviet campaign of ''VideoGame/RedAlert3'', [[spoiler: Cherdenko]] uses one as a trap to [[spoiler: decapitate the Allied leadership]].
* In ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars 2'', [[spoiler: Adder]] uses one as a trap against Yellow Comet's commanders. [[HonorBeforeReason Kanbei]] insisted on at least hearing [[spoiler: Adder]] out, despite Sonja's objections.

* A successful one happens in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' where angels, fallen angels, and devils formed a peace treaty with each other and is known historically as the "Kuon Treaty", named after the academy that they were at. Unfortunately, there's a certain group that doesn't want in on the peace treaty because either a) they still want to continue the ForeverWar, and b) the old generation doesn't want to recognize the new generation as the leaders.

* Toward the end of Literature/BelisariusSeries. In this case, it was in a weird way a PeaceConference between allies; in a way. TheEmperor of the Malwa had recently overthrown the one who had started the war and was simply clearing up loose ends. Thus in the [[EnemyCivilWar last campaign]] he actually had been an ally. In the peace conference, the new emperor was giving himself a reasonably sized empire to begin his dynasty with, and letting his empire's former enemies worry about dividing the {{Plunder}}, a straightforward job for the most part as most of them just kept what they had conquered except for a massive palace with a hoard so big that it would inevitably be an object of interimperial rivalry if any one kept it. This problem was solved by donating it all to charity.

* In a way RealLife peace conferences are theater because the negotiations all took place beforehand. No head of state can politically afford to come to a PeaceConference without returning with a treaty so doing negotiations in person hurts a head of state's bargaining ability. Therefore proper peace conferences should be done secretly and the alleged PeaceConference is only to solemnize it with a lot of pomp.

* According to one version of the story, Henry Kissinger, during the Yom Kippur war was disappointed to get a message from Nixon telling that he spoke with the President's authority. The reason was that he wanted enough ambiguity to prolong the PeaceConference and give the Israelis time enough to get their {{Revenge}} before the war stopped.

* ''Machinima/ClearSkies'' is about a plot to disrupt a [[VideoGame/EVEOnline Gallente-Caldari peace conference]], [[spoiler: by crashing a Titan into the space station it's taking place on]].

** One of the funniest parts of American Military History is reading about the talks, though it is black humor since so many people died during the arguments. Basically, if one side did anything out of the ordinary, like bring a little flag to the talks, then the other side would immediately one-up them, to the point where the flags [[UpToEleven became bigger than the meeting rooms]]. The Chinese representative also became famous for being able to simply sit without movement for hours, even letting a fly crawl across his face.

** That conference didn't work, as another one was held a year later to stop a situation turning into WorldWarThree. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks Day of the Daleks]]", a bomb going off starts that war and leads to the Daleks taking over Earth, which was what some guerrillas have traveled back in time to prevent by killing the man they thought was responsible. [[spoiler: He wasn't and by blowing up the conference themselves, they caused their own problem. The Doctor is able to prevent this from occurring.]]

* The Silver, Red, and Blue Clans have one in ''[[Anime/{{K}} K: Return of Kings]]''. In the [[spoiler: Silver]] Clan's headquarters... Shiro's tiny dorm room. And of course, it starts out with Saruhiko and Misaki arguing LikeAnOldMarriedCouple. [[StoicSpectacles Munakata]], the Blue King, is [[AdjustingYourGlasses not impressed]]. But they work things out and form an alliance.

* Since the Big One at Paris, these aren't so common; the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations more or less exists to serve as a permanent peace conference. However, some important ones occurred after the TheGreatPoliticsMessUp (the 1995 one at Dayton settling the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the 1993 one at Oslo between the [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict Israelis and Palestinians]] being the most notable).

* In ''Literature/TheFalconCannotHear'', once the more authoritarian belligerents of the Second American CivilWar are defeated, the allied factions gather in Toronto to hash out peace terms. The Toronto Conference also sets the groundwork for a new federal government, designed to incorporate each faction's own political beliefs.

* This trope crops up from time to time in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', usually when combatants are temporarily sick of fighting [[note]]There were impromptu peace conferences that ended the First Succession War, at least with the Steiner-Marik, Marik-Liao, Liao-Kurita, Steiner-Kurita and Davion-Liao fronts... after Kentares IV, there was so much bad blood between Kurita and Davion that no peace conference could ever erase. Please note that the fact that this was the end of the ''First'' Succession War should be a hint that [[ForegoneConclusion the peaces didn't hold]][[/note]] or because a GreaterScopeVillain had appeared on the scene [[note]]The formation of the short-lived Second Star League was due to the Inner Sphere deciding [[WeAreStrugglingTogether they really needed to stop beating up on each other so they could make Clan Smoke Jaguar no longer exist and tell the rest of the Clans to stop their invasion[[/note]]

* When Norwegian diplomat Mona Juul and her husband Terje Rød-Larsen ''finally'' succeed in getting Isreali and Palestinian negotiators to attend a clandestine conference in ''Theatre/{{Oslo}}'', they're explicitly instructed by their government to '''not''' call the secretive meetings a "peace conference" for political reasons. That being said, all participants in the Oslo talks are aware that they've been assembled to negotiate a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflicts... in a conference-like setting.

* Subverted in a short gag in ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1'' with G'Gugvuntts and Vl'hurgs - they only appear in the midst of the conference, and, inspired by the words of Arthur Dent traveling through a freak wormhole, decide to form an alliance against Earth. They fail to reckon scale into their strategy, and thus [[spoiler:their entire fleet is swallowed by a small dog]].