How Wars End
a hopeful history of making peace
$29.04
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2025
Summary
From Conflict to Ceasefire: A Practical Guide to Ending Wars
Do boycotts work? Should arms sales be stopped? What about supplying weapons to the good guys? In How Wars End an international expert explains how we can act to bring about peace in an age of escalating war.
In 2003, Jan van Aken almost helped stop a war. But as he was preparing to go to Baghdad to search for biological weapons, he got a message: the US was determined to avenge 9⁄11 and w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781785124327 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1785124323 |
| Author: | Jan van Aken, Jo Heinrich |
| Publisher: | Bonnier Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bonnier Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 18mm |
About The Author
Jan van Aken
Jan van Aken (Author) Jan van Aken, who holds a PhD in biology, worked as a genetic engineering expert for Greenpeace and as a biological weapons inspector for the United Nations from 2004 to 2006. From 2009 to 2017, he was a member of Parliament in Germany for the Left Party. He then worked as a Policy Advisor in International Conflict Analysis at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in the Middle East. Since October 2024, he has served as co-chairman of the Left Party.
Jo Heinrich (Translator) Jo Heinrich lives near Bristol with her family and translates from German and French. Her translations include Katja Oskamp’s Marzahn, Mon Amour, which won the 2023 Dublin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. She has also translated Oskamp’s Half Swimmer and The Invention of Good and Evil by Hanno Sauer, and she was part of a team translating Angela Merkel’s memoirs, Freedom.
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