Teribus, about national honourings we must agree to disagree.

If there is one thing that we have learned since its creation the UN is incapable of doing anything "authoritatively" and I would just love to witness the bun fight that would surround deciding who would sit on this proposed Tribunal to determine what was "fair" in any dispute between nations.

The former League of Nations was as you describe; the UN is still a long way to go, but - and that is the point - it has slowly gained standing, due to a slowly rising worldwide consciousness of its necessity. I mentioned three reasons which were already clearly visible in WWI, a fourth one became apparent since: the world climate and environment is in jeopardy. Consciousness must increase much more quickly in the near future. The Hague Tribunal was declared impossible by many pessimists as well, now it exists.

By the way where would this tribunal acquire the means with which to enforce its findings?

In the end, we need a literal World Police. Until then, exactly like the current Security Council, the Tribunal will rely on national governments, but with much more moral authority. Not fluffy dreaming, but necessity.

Governments did not create sport, sports teams, or events to "canalize" anything. Mankind's natural "tribalism" does that all on its own.

I was not thinking of governments; these often represent the opposite tendency: to risk real wars. Some wars in South America were even said to have been triggered by football games. Triggered, not caused.—

neither Great Britain or France went to war with Germany because they viewed her as a rival for either "ruling the waves" or with regard to Germany's ambitions regarding her lack of colonies.

Many writers are convinced that they did; rivalry in industrial performance is mentioned as a third motive (and compared to present-day China). I do not know whether this is true - we will read more in the course of this year. For my point, it suffices that they did not do enough to allay the suspicion, in a way that reasonably-minded Germans could have used as an argument against their hawks. Same vice-versa.

Iraq/Kuwait: yet another example of the very questionable moral position of the West and other powers, even though Saddam Hussein's personal villainy was beyond doubt (aptly compared to Hitler's). My UN Tribunal would have intervened much earlier, and so should the international community of peace thinkers, now known as the "Bloggers' Tribunal". No power? A lot, already now!