Rethinking Peace / / ed. by Robert Elias, Jennifer Turpin.

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• MitwirkendeR: Adams, David,; Alger, Chadwick F.,; Allende, Isabel,; Aziz Said, Abdul,; Brock-Ulne, Birgit,; Chilton, Patricia,; Chilton, Paul,; Derber, Charles,; Egunjobi, La Yi,; Elias, Robert,; Fahey, Joseph J.,; Franklin, H. Bruce,; Gerson, Joseph,; Goldstein, Arnold P.,; Gregory, Donna U.,; Hauss, Charles,; Helton, Arthur C.,; Hlavacek, Jen,; Hostetler, Lana L.,; Kaldor, Mary,; Karim Bangura, Abdul,; Karioki, James N.,; Kenworthy, Lane,; Kiss, Judit,; Kodama, Katsuya,; Krieger, David,; Kriesberg, Louis,; Mack, Andrew,; Marullo, Sam,; Mellon, Christian,; Miedzian, Myriam,; Morrison, Roy,; Muller, Jean-Marie,; Oberg, Jan,; Peace, Roger,; Renner, Michael,; Rubin, David,; Schwartz, William A.,; Semelin, Jacques,; Shuman, Michael,; Smith, Jackie,; Swaim, Will,; Tomasevski, Katarina,; Turpin, Jennifer,; Veeser, Cyrus,; Vickers, Jeanne,; Woodward, Beverly,; Zunes, Stephen,
• HerausgeberIn: Elias, Robert,; Turpin, Jennifer,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2024]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.)

With the development of the atomic bomb, Albert Einstein remarked that everything had changed except our thinking about the world. Einstein and Bertrand Russell warned us that "we have to learn to think in a new way. . . . shall we put an end to the human race; or shall we renounce war?" U...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Preface
• 1 Introduction: Thinking About Peace
• Part 1 Old Thinking: How Did We Get Here?
• Introduction
• 2 Real Men, Wimps, and National Security
• 3 Fantasies of Power
• 4 The Dictator's Furnace
• 5 War, Propaganda, and Civilized Values
• 6 Columbus and the Crusades
• Part 2 Taking Stock: Rethinking Contemporary Paradigms
• Introduction
• Current Dilemmas
• 7 War as a Social Problem
• 8 The Seville Statement on Violence
• 9 Sociological Statement on War and Violence
• 10 The Gulf War and the New World Order
• 11 Hardware Is Not the Problem
• 12 The New Nationalism in Europe
• 13 Ethnicity's Threat to Peace
• 14 Who Are the Enemies?
• 15 On the Status of Southern Women
• 16 The Dilemmas of Flight
• 17 Crime Wars Forgotten
• Regional Challenges
• 18 Glasnost and the End of the Cold War
• 19 After the Euphoria
• 20 Conflict Mitigation in Former Yugoslavia
• 21 Confidence Building in Asia-Pacific
• 22 A Middle Eastern Peace Strategy
• Part 3 New Ideas: Creating New Models
• Introduction
• New Consciousness
• 23 Peace Studies and the American Ethos
• 24 Writing as an Act of Hope
• 25 National Security News
• 26 Preparing Children for Peace
• 27 Listen to Women, for a Change
• 28 Safe as Houses?
• 29 African Americans and World Peace
• New Models
• 30 Civil Society in Transition
• 31 The Right to Peace After the Cold War
• 32 Development with a Human Face
• 33 What Do We Do Now?
• 34 Aggression Reduction Strategies
• 35 Civil Deterrence
• Part 4 New Strategies: New Ideas into Action
• Introduction
• Peace Action
• 36 A Grassroots Approach to Life in Peace
• 37 The European Citizens' Assembly
• 38 Reimagining Future Society
• 39 Municipal Diplomacy
• 40 Frame or Be Framed
• 41 Ending the Scourge of War
• Peace Movements
• 42 The Bomb, the Movement, and the Future
• 43 Democracy in African Insurgent Movements
• 44 Challenging the Japanese Peace Movement
• 45 Directions for the U.S. Peace Movement
• Contributors
• Index
• About the Book