CentralNotice Frozen conflict From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Geopolitics of Eastern Europe, 2014, showing the frozen conflict zones of Transnistria , Crimea , Abkhazia and South Ossetia (numbered 1–4), as well as Nagorno-Karabakh (shown as darker shaded region within Azerbaijan), Northern Cyprus (lighter region within Cyprus), and Kosovo (beige region within Serbia). Israel and the Palestinian territories also appear on the map. In international relations , a frozen conflict is a situation in which active armed conflict has been brought to an end, but no peace treaty or other political framework resolves the conflict to the satisfaction of the combatants. The term has been commonly used for post-Soviet conflicts , but it has also often been applied to other perennial territorial disputes . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The de facto situatio...