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How Peace Activists Can Be More Effective
(m31667)
Author:
Buryl Payne
Keywords:
Peace
,
Peace Activism
,
Peace Protest
,
Protest
Summary:
Peace activities are all too often reactive rather than proactive. Only after an international battle or war are attempts made to ameliorate situations by constructing treaties, agreements, or curtailment of nuclear weapons, cluster bombs, poison gas, biological weapons, etc. This is a kind of political symptom treatment. Historical analysis shows ... of war.
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Peace activities are all too often reactive rather than proactive. Only after an international battle or war are attempts made to ameliorate situations by constructing treaties, agreements, or curtailment of nuclear weapons, cluster bombs, poison gas, biological weapons, etc. This is a kind of political symptom treatment. Historical analysis shows this approach is only partially successful. When wars start up again peace treaties go out the window! Effective peace treatments for warring behavior may be aided by more modern understanding of the nature of war.
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Subject:
Science and Technology,
Humanities,
Social Sciences
Language:
English
Popularity:
6.53%
Revised:
2009-08-25
Revisions:
New
Popularity is measured as percentile rank of page views/day over all time
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