ABSTRACT
There are two critical components to "world peace through law": (1) a comprehensive and effective international dispute resolution system, and (2) effective enforcement mechanisms. This chapter looks at the former. What is necessary is a comprehensive system of compulsory international dispute resolution, proceeding in four stepwise stages with (1) compulsory negotiation, (2) compulsory mediation, (3) compulsory arbitration, and (4) compulsory adjudication. As to what would make resort to international dispute resolution "compulsory", the answer would have to be not only a treaty but also a powerful international norm making it so, an international norm considerably more powerful than that associated with the 1929 Kellogg-Briand Treaty. A WPTL treaty would need to define with considerable precision what triggers the duty to engage in international dispute resolution as well as mechanisms to deal with the party who refuses to enter into international dispute resolution where it is mandated.
