Stopping Wars

The road from war to peace is a puzzling and uncertain one. To those who fight and die on it, it is seldom clear where the journey will end - and those responsible for finding the path are rarely more perceptive. Of the few signposts that exist, perhaps the most visible is the cease-fire. No war ends without one. Stopping Wars is the first attempt to catalog the reasons why some wars are so difficult to stop - even when both sides want the fighting to end. James Smith examines the problems encountered by protagonists as well as third parties attempting to achieve a cease-fire. Each chapter is…