How Wars End: A Hopeful History of Making Peace

Do boycotts work? Should arms sales be halted? And what about supplying weapons to the so-called “good guys”?

In How Wars End, international conflict expert Jan van Aken explores what it really takes to achieve peace in an age of escalating global violence.

In 2003, van Aken was preparing to travel to Baghdad as a UN weapons inspector to search for biological weapons—until he received a message: the United States was determined to invade Iraq in retaliation for 9/11, inspections or not. Th...