A Global Security System: An Alternative to War - Brossura

Shifferd, Kent; Hiller, Patrick; Swanson, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0998085928 ISBN 13: 9780998085920

Casa editrice: World Beyond War, 2017

Riassunto

Resting on a convincing body of evidence that violence is not a necessary component of conflict among states and between states and non-state actors, World Beyond War asserts that war itself can be ended. We humans have lived without war for most of our existence and most people live without war most of the time. Warfare arose about 6,000 years ago (less than 5% of our existence as Homo sapiens) and spawned a vicious cycle of warfare as peoples, fearing attack by militarized states found it necessary to imitate them and so began the cycle of violence that has culminated in the last 100 years in a condition of permawar. War now threatens to destroy civilization as weapons have become ever more destructive. However, in the last 150 years, revolutionary new knowledge and methods of nonviolent conflict management have been developing that lead us to assert that it is time to end warfare and that we can do so by mobilizing millions around a global effort.

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Recensione

"A must-read for everyone trying to create a world beyond war." —Mairead Maguire 

“What a treasure. It is so well written and conceptualized. The beautiful text and design immediately captured the attention and imagination of my 90 graduate and undergraduate students.  Visually and substantively, the clarity of the book appeals to young people in a way textbooks have not.” —Barbara Wien, American University

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Historian

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: World Beyond War
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0998085928
• ISBN 13: 9780998085920
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 94
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile