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There are only two ways to end war.
1) Eliminate all of the problems in the world.
Not just the "seven deadly sins" mentioned previously, but the poverty, religion, and racial and ethnic differences among individuals, plus the problems of resource management around the world.
This is probably impossible, not just because of the overall "human nature", but because there will always be someone who will see an opportunity to take some kind of power and then use it to gain more. That's is how we got here in the first place.
In addition, the way the world is structured today, the organizational problems, not to mention the social ones, make it an undertaking that would ultimately lead to failure, based on the reason above.
Think of it as the Soviet Union. After the revolution in 1917, they were trying to form into a socialist nation. Then Lenin dies, and in the confluence of confusion caused by his death and the ongoing struggles of the revolution, Stalin sees an opportunity, starts knocking off his superiors, and takes absolute power. Or even as Russia after the collapse of the USSR, where Putin is taking more and more power in the rebuilding towards capitalism.
2) Continue on the path that humanity was on up until the past half-century: make war so terrible that no one will be willing to fight.
Until the nuclear age, the goal of military technology was to kill as many of the enemy as possible so that, through demoralization or simple depopulation, they were no longer willing or able to fight.
However, once people saw the power of nuclear weapons, the tide started turning away from that towards simply disabling the enemy. That is the wrong way to go if you want to prevent people from fighting, since death is in most people the ultimate fear.
Even this isn't foolproof, because there will always be someone who is motivated by the reasons mentioned earlier who will take the risk, or there is even the chance of someone with mental problems or an inferiority/superiority complex will be the one making the decision to fight.
So, as I see it the end of warfare at this point in the history of human civilization is an impossibility.
However, if one of the two scenarios I suggested can come to pass, then war could end at some point, in the future.
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"Final thought: I just rented Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine. Frankly, it was the worst sports movie I've ever seen."
--Peter Schmuck, The (Baltimore) Sun
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