Stopping ongoing wars depends on the assumed costs of the continuation of a war, assessing the balance of power, and to what extent the parties involved accept compromises and trust promises. The end of a war is influenced by ideas of the conflict’s finality. As long as a war’s outcome is ambiguous, fighting will continue to achieve unambiguity. Peace must be publicly defensible and not considered a betrayal. An intermediate step could be an internationalized trusteeship regime.

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