About the Book: How Wars End: A Hopeful History of Making Peace
Do boycotts work? Should arms sales be stopped? What about supplying weapons to
the good guys? In How Wars End an international expert explains how we can act
to bring about peace in an age of escalating war.
In 2003 Jan van Aken almost helped stop a war. But as he was preparing to go to
Baghdad to search for biological weapons, he got a message: the US was
determined to avenge 9/11 and wouldnt wait for UN inspections to take place. The
invasion went ahead, and only years later, the