The motives, rationales, and impulses that give rise to war-the search for survival, enrichment, solidarity, and glory-are now better satisfied through peaceful means, war can be an increasingly anachronistic practice, much more likely to impoverish and harm us humans than satisfy and protect us. This book implies that we curently have lots of the establishments and practices had a need to make peacefulness possible and models out plans for building globe peace.

In the immediate term, World Tranquility shows how steps to improve compliance with international law, improve collective action such as international peacekeeping and peacebuilding, better regulate the flow of arms, and hold individuals legally in charge of acts of aggression or atrocity crimes could make our world more peaceful. It also shows how in the long term, building solid and legitimate state governments that secure the privileges and protected the livelihoods of their people, gender equivalent societies, and safeguarding the right of people to opt-out of wars has the potential to establish and sustain globe peace. Nonetheless it is only going to happen, if individuals organize to make it happen.