Are Americans Becoming More Peaceful

Author : Paul Joseph
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317263618
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are Americans Becoming More Peaceful? written by Paul Joseph and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's time that someone broke into the general gloom created by a war-loving administration and reminded us that we are a peace-loving people. Paul Joseph's book does just that, not with fantasy but with facts, showing how the public antipathy to war, suppressed too long by propaganda and deception, is coming to the surface, and offers hope." Howard Zinn "In this antidote to despair, Joseph shows how even the most sophisticated efforts of US political and military leaders to maintain public support for war are flawed and doomed to failure in the face of an increasingly skeptical public that is unwilling to accept the costs." William A. Gamson, Boston College "An original and thought-provoking perspective on one of the most important issues in American politics today." Michael Klare, Hampshire College Are Americans becoming more peaceful -- even after the 2004 elections and the seeming affirmation of the war in Iraq? This book looks at the meaning of peace in the face of war and offers an optimistic interpretation of the public's changing views. US citizens are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the costs of war that can be measured not just in dollars but in lives and international respect. Americans are becoming ever more resistant to government management of the "facts" surrounding war. In areas ranging from media and photojournalism to gender and casualties, Joseph exposes the reality of popular opposition to war.

Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143122010
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Better Angels of Our Nature written by Steven Pinker and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.

Author : Matthew Velissaris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perceived Levels of Past and Likely Future Rates of Global and American Violence and Emotional Well-being written by Matthew Velissaris and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary survey evidence suggests the majority of adult Americans view the world, including America, as experiencing a recent and remote history of increasing rates of deaths related to warfare and violent crime. Contrary to this possibly commonly held belief, a large body of evidence demonstrates that we may be living in the most peaceful point in human history both at home and abroad. It is possible that the majority of Americans hold a view of a world and country which have become more violent when the converse is objectively true. Further research to define prevailing views on historic trends in global and American rates of death related to warfare and crime is warranted. This was the first principal goal of this research project. Individuals and groups often envision a likely future world, based on, at least in part, a continuation of past trends. It is possible that hope, or lack thereof, for a more peaceful world in the future is being dampened by a commonly held view of America and the world as having become more violent. This question is a testable hypothesis and one worth exploring. Correlating the relationship, if any, between perceived past rates of death due to warfare and homicide and beliefs of perceived likely future rates was the second principal goal of this study. Emotional health may be negatively impacted by the perception of a world and homeland becoming increasingly more violent. As such, the final principal goal of this research project was to explore the relationship, if any, between expected future rates of death related to war and homicide and emotional well-being.

Author : P. J. O'Rourke
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802141986
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace Kills written by P. J. O'Rourke and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O'Rourke casts his ever-shrewd and mordant eye on America's latest adventures in warfare. He is both incisive reporter and absurdist, relevant and irreverent, with a clear eye for everyone's confusion, including his own. O'Rourke understands that peace is sometimes one of the most troubling aspects of war.

Author : Michael Mandelbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197533167
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth written by Michael Mandelbaum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, Michael Mandelbaum examines the peaceful quarter century after the end of the Cold War. He describes how the period came about and why it ended, arguing that individual countries overturned peaceful, political, and military arrangements in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, thereby affecting the rest of the world. He also probes prospects for the revival of peace in the future and stresses the importance of democracy and civil liberties across borders.

Author : Christopher a Preble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948647168
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace, War, and Liberty written by Christopher a Preble and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historically-grounded examination of United States foreign policy that interrogates the ideological assumptions--whether explicit or tacit--that drive it.

Author : Madeleine K. Albright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MIDDLE EAST STRATEGY TASK FORCE: Final Report of the Co-Chairs written by Madeleine K. Albright and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United Nations;World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464811865
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pathways for Peace written by United Nations;World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent conflicts today are complex and increasingly protracted, involving more nonstate groups and regional and international actors. It is estimated that by 2030—the horizon set by the international community for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals—more than half of the world’s poor will be living in countries affected by high levels of violence. Information and communication technology, population movements, and climate change are also creating shared risks that must be managed at both national and international levels. Pathways for Peace is a joint United Nations†“World Bank Group study that originates from the conviction that the international community’s attention must urgently be refocused on prevention. A scaled-up system for preventive action would save between US$5 billion and US$70 billion per year, which could be reinvested in reducing poverty and improving the well-being of populations. The study aims to improve the way in which domestic development processes interact with security, diplomacy, mediation, and other efforts to prevent conflicts from becoming violent. It stresses the importance of grievances related to exclusion—from access to power, natural resources, security and justice, for example—that are at the root of many violent conflicts today. Based on a review of cases in which prevention has been successful, the study makes recommendations for countries facing emerging risks of violent conflict as well as for the international community. Development policies and programs must be a core part of preventive efforts; when risks are high or building up, inclusive solutions through dialogue, adapted macroeconomic policies, institutional reform, and redistributive policies are required. Inclusion is key, and preventive action needs to adopt a more people-centered approach that includes mainstreaming citizen engagement. Enhancing the participation of women and youth in decision making is fundamental to sustaining peace, as well as long-term policies to address the aspirations of women and young people.

Author : Chris Hedges
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416583149
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Every Person Should Know About War written by Chris Hedges and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. • What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war? • What does it feel like to get shot? • What do artillery shells do to you? • What is the most painful way to get wounded? • Will I be afraid? • What could happen to me in a nuclear attack? • What does it feel like to kill someone? • Can I withstand torture? • What are the long-term consequences of combat stress? • What will happen to my body after I die? This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.

Author : Kenneth E. Boulding
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477305718
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stable Peace written by Kenneth E. Boulding and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human race has often put a high value on struggle, strife, turmoil, and excitement. Peace has been regarded as a utopian, unattainable, perhaps dull ideal or as some random element over which we have no control. However, the desperate necessities of the nuclear age have forced us to take peace seriously as an object of both personal and national policy. Stable Peace attempts to answer the question, If we had a policy for peace, what would it look like? A policy for peace aims to speed up the historically slow, painful, but persistent transition from a state of continual war and turmoil to one of continual peace. In a stable peace, the war-peace system is tipped firmly toward peace and away from the cycle of folly, illusion, and ill will that leads to war. Boulding proposes a number of modest, easily attainable, eminently reasonable policies directed toward this goal. His recommendations include the removal of national boundaries from political agendas, the encouragement of reciprocal acts of good will between potential enemies, the exploration of the theory and practice of nonviolence, the development of governmental and nongovernmental organizations to promote peace, and the development of research in the whole area of peace and conflict management. Written in straightforward, lucid prose, Stable Peace will be of importance to politicians, policy makers, economists, diplomats, all concerned citizens, and all those interested in international relations and the resolution of conflict.