How Wars End

A special series for PRI's The World reported by Jeb Sharp and edited by Patrick Cox. Winner of the 2008 Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club of America.

View of Grbavica, a neighborhood of Sarajevo, Bosnia.

How wars end part V: Bosnia

January 13, 2014Conflict & Justice

Bosnia, a republic of the former Yugoslavia, was torn apart by ethnic violence in the early 1990s. A diplomatic breakthrough helped end that war in 1995.

Three U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornet fighters from strike fighter squadron VFA-83 Rampagers fly in formation over the desert during "Operation Desert Storm" on 3 February 1991.

How wars end part IV: the Gulf War

January 13, 2014Conflict & Justice

The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28th June 1919 painted by William Orpen.

How wars end part III: World War I

January 13, 2014Conflict & Justice

Union soldiers entrenched along the west bank of the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg, Virginia.

How wars end part II: the American Civil War

January 10, 2014Conflict & Justice

A resident gestures as he talks to a U.S. soldier from 2nd Brigade combat team, 82nd Airborne on patrol in Baghdad's Adhamiya district January 5, 2008.

How wars end part I: Iraq

January 10, 2014Conflict & Justice