Contents:Introduction / Damien Kingsbury and Richard Iron -- I. Why war? -- The causes of war — and their consequences / Hew Strachan -- A typology of wars and how they end / Rob Johnson -- How you fight a war matters to how it ends : a real-world contemporary case study : Iraq 2016 / Roger Noble -- II. Case studies -- Libya’s mercenaries crisis : ‘I am here to protect the King of Kings’ / Alia Brahimi -- Indonesia’s war against East Timor : how it ended / Clinton Fernandes -- Ending the Sierra Leone war / Richard Iron -- Peace processes in Aceh and Sri Lanka : a comparative assessment / Damien Kingsbury -- How wars end : the case of Afghanistan / David Kilcullen -- Some reflections on the pursuit of ‘peace’ in Afghanistan : ‘Never Send to Know for Whom the Wars End’ / William Maley -- III. Alternatives -- Reflections on the Australian experience : how wars end / John Blaxland -- How major-power wars end / Hugh White -- IV. Ways forward -- Negotiations to end all wars / William Zartman -- Negotiating peace / Damien Kingsbury -- Endless wars, perpetual peacekeeping? / Adam Day and Charles T Hunt -- Conclusion / Damien Kingsbury and Richard Iron.