 If you're going to try to create peace, you have to have the power to prevent the aggressor from upsetting it. So you don't cut a deal. If the wolves are negotiating with the lambs, the first thing the lambs should not do, which is what they did in Aesop's Fables, is trade away their guard dogs as a gesture of peace, because then the warlike wolves could take advantage of them. You have to