DontRunMeOver

A day in the mountains. Both are nice but in my experience beaches usually involve being sat next to families with hyperactive children and parents who are ten times as annoying as their kids are. If your in the mountains its just you, whoever you're with, the air and the scenery.

Rage Against the Machine, Jeff Buckley (counts as a band...), Mars Volta.

Stop fighting? The 'if' is a big word there. There would have to big an entire, international cultural reform which educated children away from the aggressive ethics of their parent's cultures, such that it would become unfeasible that any individual who proposed violence as a course of action in international relations would be able to gain support. At the moment, any war between nations whose people's ethics conflict still find a lot of support within those countries as we're often told that its ok, even desirable, to fight those whose behaviour we disagree with (as an extension of 'fighting for what you believe').