AH Challenge---end of war...

Here's the challenge: End all war, at least for a good couple hundred years or so. Your POD must be no further than 50 years before the last war ends. No ending war by destroying humanity or civilization...
 

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No war anywhere in the world for a half century?

Nearly impossible based on the limits you placed on the POD.

If you get a world empire - you might get a couple generations without war - but eventually you'll face separatism or dynastic strife. If your empire is religious as opposed to political (one world faith), then your strife will be schismatic.

apart from that - can't think of any way to do it.
 
No war anywhere in the world for a half century?

Nearly impossible based on the limits you placed on the POD.

If you get a world empire - you might get a couple generations without war - but eventually you'll face separatism or dynastic strife. If your empire is religious as opposed to political (one world faith), then your strife will be schismatic.

apart from that - can't think of any way to do it.

Not necessary, at least not that soon. Most empires failed due to 2 factors: inhomogenity and lack of mass communication/transportation between it´s parts, especially across a political "fault line".
So a massive homogenisation of the hypothetical world empire, as well as transportation system a lot cheaper and easier available than today, might survive for longer.
 
Well it's a half-solution but apparently around the end of the Napoleonic Wars there was a fear that the British were becoming so powerful that they would form a permanent European "summit" (of sorts) where they would settle all issues and prevent conflicts, using their naval and economic strength to pressure combatants to withdraw from wars. Since the British had no real continental ambitions - where just about every other major European country did - this therefore gave them somewhat of a feeling of moral supremacy. It would operate a bit like a modern-day UN I guess, only with one nation overwhelmingly dominant acting as arbiter and dispatcher of justice, and not afraid to use its own armed forces to smack down aggressors. Maybe if you have the ARW failing you could have the UK dominant enough to achieve this - and maybe slightly tinker the Napoleonic Wars to balance the surviving countries - a more peaceful and acceptable solution to "the Saxony question", have Russia take some infrastructural damage from the 1812 invasion so it doesn't feel ready to try seizing the Bosphorus, etc. Then you just need the UK and the other colonial nations to gobble up the remaining non-European countries to turn them into colonies and you have the entire world under one authoritative presence.

It's speculation, of course - there's no evidence OTL that the UK ever wanted to do such a thing. But it serves its purpose here.
 
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