On the relative cost of mediation and military intervention

Noting that the cost of war-prevention is much less than that of war and its aftermath, the article discusses options for a United Nations Institute for Mediation, a U.N. Security Insurance Agency, and an International Security Commission. It suggests that just as in the course of history, humans have abolished a number of institutions we now consider inhuman – cannibalism, ritual sacrifice, slavery, absolute monarchy, and most recently colonialism – it is possible, even likely, that some day war will follow and will be considered as equally abhorrent as we consider cannibalism today.