Can the UN negotiations bring peace to Syria?

The United Nations have currently suspended peace talks between Syrian rebels and the Assad regime, with negotiations set to resume later this month. Both sides are blaming the other for the collapse of the negotiations, and fighting has intensified as Syrian government forces launched offensives against rebel held towns near Aleppo. Despite this, the UN's special envoy to Syria Staffan de Misturo said that the peace talks have not failed. Can these negotiations realistically bring peace to Syria? In this interview, John Ballot spoke to the University of Melbourne's Dr Denis Dragovic, an expert in political theology and post-conflict state building, about whether or not the UN can end the five-year civil war.