ABSTRACT
When looking at how people get from war to peace, there is a tendency to make vague pronouncements about the inscrutability of the process. Comments are general, not specific, and most people will conclude that wars end when the belligerents want them to, or that "war weariness" sets in: wars stop because the warring parties no longer want to fight them. This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book attempts to show at least two main things. First, that the transitions from war to peace — and the cease-fires which inevitably accompany that shift — are neither as inscrutable nor vague. Second, the obstacles involved in achieving a cease-fire appear not only to be common to the particular wars under study — crossing the border between international in intrastate war — but are themselves enmeshed in such a way that the presence of one may engender the presence of others.
