PEACE: A History of Movements and Ideas
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by David Cortright
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Veteran peace activist and scholar David Cortright offers a definitive history of the human striving for peace and an analysis of its religious and intellectual roots.
This authoritative, balanced, and highly readable volume traces the rise of peace advocacy and internationalism from their origins in earlier centuries through the mass movements of recent decades: the pacifist campaigns of the 1930s, the Vietnam antiwar movement, and the waves of disarmament activism that peaked in the 1980s. Also explored are the underlying principles of peace-nonviolence, democracy, social justice, and human rights-all placed within a framework of ‘realistic pacifism’. Peace brings the story up-to-date by examining opposition to the Iraq War and responses to the so-called ‘war on terror’. This is history with a modern twist, set in the context of current debates about ‘the responsibility to protect’, nuclear proliferation, Darfur, and conflict transformation.
• A complete examination of the debate about peace in one readable volume
• A unique study that combines a history of movements with a history of ideas
“David Cortright’s PEACE shows that it is possible to prevent the scourge of war and create a more just and peaceful future-if we are prepared to learn the lessons of history and apply proven peacemaking knowledge. This is a hopeful but realistic book that deserves to be read and studied widely.”
-Kofi A. Annan, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations
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