Toward a theory of peace: the role of moral beliefs
Military analyst, peace activist, teacher, and social theorist Randall Caroline Watson Forsberg (1943–2007) founded the Nuclear Freeze campaign and the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies. In Toward a Theory of Peace, completed in 1997 and published for the first time here, she delves into...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Ithaca
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Peace
/ Sanktionierte Gewalt
/ Conflict avoidance
/ History
B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
| Further subjects: | B
Peace studies and conflict resolution
B Topics in philosophy B Philosophy and Religion B Social and political philosophy B Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects B Interdisciplinary studies B Philosophy |
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| Rights Information: | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Military analyst, peace activist, teacher, and social theorist Randall Caroline Watson Forsberg (1943–2007) founded the Nuclear Freeze campaign and the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies. In Toward a Theory of Peace, completed in 1997 and published for the first time here, she delves into a vast literature in psychology, anthropology, archeology, sociology, and history to examine the ways in which changing moral beliefs came to stigmatize forms of "socially sanctioned violence" such as human sacrifice, cannibalism, and slavery, eventually rendering them unacceptable. Could the same process work for war? Edited and with an introduction by political scientists Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University) and Neta C. Crawford (Boston University), both of whom worked with Forsberg |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (270 p.) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5017-4436-5 978-1-5017-4437-2 978-1-5017-4435-8 |
| Access: | Open Access |
