Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.
No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.
If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war.
