Wars in the post-Cold War era are overwhelmingly internal or civil. These wars are also defined by a high level of barbarity, indicated by the violent persecution of the majority of their victims: women, children, and the elderly. This has convinced the world's premier war-relief organization, the Swiss-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to take on a new, unspoken mission: to make these wars dysfunctional and end them. Because...