War is the most ancient and primitive way of dealing with conflict. According to yoga stopping the cycle of war requires delving into the subtle causes underlying material desires and religious differences. These are selfishness ego greed ethnocentrism and sense of inferiority. Because of these attributes we fail to do what we know is right and persist in doing what we know is wrong. In the scriptures this phenomenon is called killing the conscience.The great scriptures of yogaThe Bhagavad Git