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The idea that killing people will create peace is rather non-sensical to me. The state of humanity is going to include conflict as long as there is inequality in the distrubution of resources between nation-states and with-in them (and I doubt that will ever go away).
I think the ethical approach to killing people should be along the lines of "if I don't do this, then more people will die then if I don't" or, in this age of nation-states, "if I don't do this, then some of <i>our</i> people would die". Both of those situations are typically hard to gauge. I think some huge failures of acting appropriately to create people that would including the high probability of killing some people would have been in Rwanda and Somalia, and now in Darfur. Rwanda shows how slowing reacting to world events lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths. Somalia shows how undermanning an operation for peace can lead to more violence (by feeding warlords and their followers with food meant for humanitarian aid).
I don't have the will to make decisions that could fall in this domain, so I will refrain from pulling myself in that situation (which should hopefully be easy given that there are so many others out there vying for that kind of power).
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Innominate.
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