And the leadership may be replaced by those with a more dovish outlook. A second accelerator of peace is the development of mutually consistent expectations of the outcome of the war. Battle proves one or both parties wrong about success and establishes the outline of a new balance of powers. One party obviously begins to physically dominate and the other side has no prospect of overcoming this inequality either through its own means or by third party intervention. Finally, the end of war is accelerated by its ideological devaluation.
Ideology gives a war significance beyond the immediate, objective status quo issue.
It becomes a matter of universal truth and justice. To devalue this content of war is to make its resolution easier in terms of concrete status quo issues. Such are those conditions helping to terminate war. Individually, or collectively, they will not always bring war to an end. They do not necessarily cause termination.