ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book aims to help readers feel not only competent to hold opinions about what should be done but also motivated to make a contribution toward doing it. It presents nine basic ways in which people have tried, or might try, to achieve peace between nations. The book examines and compares these ways, for they do not all apply to the same kinds of circumstances nor result in the same sorts of peace. It discusses the traditional means of coping with conflict: paths 1 and 2. The book discusses the traditional means of trying to prevent conflict: paths 3, 4, and 5. It takes up the alternative means of coping with conflict: paths 6 and 7. The book focuses on to the alternative means for preventing conflict: paths 8 and 9.
