On the relative cost of mediation and military intervention

Dietrich Fischer ()
Additional contact information
Dietrich Fischer: European Peace University

Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 2006, vol. 1, issue 2, 13-16

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Mediation; peace; intervention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D74 H56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.epsjournal.org.uk/index.php/EPSJ/article/view/27 (application/pdf)
Open access 24 months after original publication.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:epc:journl:v:1:y:2006:i:2:p:13-16

Access Statistics for this article

Economics of Peace and Security Journal is currently edited by Michael Brown and J Paul Dunne

More articles in Economics of Peace and Security Journal from EPS Publishing Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Michael Brown, Managing Editor, EPSJ ().