A Human Contribution to the Structure of Peace

A Human Contribution to the Structure of Peace

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  • Author: United States. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
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  • Category : Cultural relations
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 56


Peace

Peace

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  • Author: Oliver P. Richmond
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0192857029
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 177

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The concept of peace has always attracted radical thought, action, and practices. It has been taken to mean merely an absence of overt violence or war, but in the contemporary era it is often used interchangeably with 'peacemaking', 'peacebuilding', 'conflict resolution', and 'statebuilding'. The modern concept of peace has therefore broadened from the mere absence of violence to something much more complicated. In this Very Short Introduction, Oliver Richmond explores the evolution of peace in practice and in theory, exploring our modern assumptions about peace and the various different interpretations of its applications. This second edition has been theoretically and empirically updated and introduces a new framework to understand the overall evolution of the international peace architecture. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.


A Human Approach to World Peace

A Human Approach to World Peace

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  • ISBN: 9789186069445
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 33


On War

On War

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  • Author: Carl von Clausewitz
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  • Category : Military art and science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 388


The Conflict Helix

The Conflict Helix

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  • Author: R. J. Rummel
  • Publisher: Transaction Publishers
  • ISBN: 9781412836302
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 320

This is a book on conflict and consensus aimed at the general reader. In active, plain and direct language it makes the seemingly abstract and complex issues simple. Its view of peace is well-rounded, tough-minded, one that well understands the difficult world of social and personal violence and conflict. At its heart is a simple finding: "to wage peace we need to foster freedom." The human race can best achieve that simple aim by "leaving people alone to form their own communities." "The Conflict Helix "avoids the ambiguous in favor of the categorical; the hedged, qualified statement for the direct Rummel presents a series of basic principles, each concerning an aspect of conflict and peace - psychological, interpersonal, societal, international - and each aspect having its own master principle. These principles are not mere organizational props, but are deeply theoretical and empirically fundamental. The volume expresses the core ideas, results and conclusions of Rummel's major, five-volume work on "Understanding Conflict and War. "In discarding technical material and focusing on principles and meaning, "The Conflict Helix "presents an executive summary of a lifetime of work in a digestible form. In light of recent events in Europe, Asia and Latin American this work takes on a special poignancy for the developing no less than the industrialized worlds. Hence, this book should be of value to the general reader as well as professionals and advanced students of international politics.


The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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  • Category : Civil rights
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 32


The Moral Imagination

The Moral Imagination

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  • Author: John Paul Lederach
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 019974758X
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 217

Originally published in hardcover in 2005.


Peace Education, 3d ed.

Peace Education, 3d ed.

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  • Author: Ian M. Harris
  • Publisher: McFarland
  • ISBN: 0786472464
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 293

Now in its third edition, Peace Education provides a comprehensive approach to educating for a just and sustainable future. It begins with religious and historical trends that have molded our understanding of "peace" and then presents a variety of ways to practice peace education in schools and communities, and explains how it can motivate students. The teaching and practice of peace education provides a basis of valuable knowledge about resolving conflicts and transforming violence without the use of force. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.


World Peace

World Peace

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  • Author: Alex J. Bellamy
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0192570048
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

For as long as there has been war, there have been demands for its elimination. The quest for world peace has excited and eluded political leaders, philosophers, religious elders, activists, and artists for millennia. With war on the rise once again, we rarely reflect on what world peace might look like; much less on how it might be achieved. World Peace aims to change all that and show that world peace is possible. Because the motives, rationales, and impulses that give rise to war - the quest for survival, enrichment, solidarity, and glory - are now better satisfied through peaceful means, war is an increasingly anachronistic practice, more likely to impoverish and harm us humans than satisfy and protect us. This book shows that we already have many of the institutions and practices needed to make peace possible and sets out an agenda for building world peace. In the immediate term, it shows how steps to strengthen compliance with international law, improve collective action such as international peacekeeping and peacebuilding, better regulate the flow of arms, and hold individuals legally accountable for acts of aggression or atrocity crimes can make our world more peaceful. It also shows how in the long term, building strong and legitimate states that protect the rights and secure the livelihoods of their people, gender equal societies, and protecting the right of individuals to opt-out of wars has the potential to establish and sustain world peace. But it will only happen, if individuals organize to make it happen.


Beyond War

Beyond War

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  • Author: Douglas P. Fry
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199725055
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

A profoundly heartening view of human nature, Beyond War offers a hopeful prognosis for a future without war. Douglas P. Fry convincingly argues that our ancient ancestors were not innately warlike--and neither are we. He points out that, for perhaps ninety-nine percent of our history, for well over a million years, humans lived in nomadic hunter-and-gatherer groups, egalitarian bands where warfare was a rarity. Drawing on archaeology and fascinating recent fieldwork on hunter-gatherer bands from around the world, Fry debunks the idea that war is ancient and inevitable. For instance, among Aboriginal Australians, warfare was an extreme anomaly. Fry also points out that even today, when war seems ever present, the vast majority of us live peaceful, nonviolent lives. We are not as warlike as we think, and if we can learn from our ancestors, we may be able to move beyond war to provide real justice and security for the world.