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Today: A day of mourning and celebration
Today is a day when we should mourn the first and only use of nuclear weapons and their growing threat to life on earth. By some estimates (e.g., the Ploughshares Fund, June, 2010), there may now be over 20,000 nuclear … Continue reading
Posted in Champions of peace
Tagged activists, Daniel Ellsberg, Fukushima, Hiroshima, Howard Zinn, Japan, mindfulness, Nagasaki, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, Nuclear-Free Future Month, persecution, Ploughshares Fund, prosecution, Russia, The Bomb, The Nuclear Abolitionist, Waging Nonviolence
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More than a few “bad apples”: American soldiers, the legacy of torture, and the trauma behind it
[Editor's Note: In today’s post, we introduce a new feature to our engagingpeace.com blog. Periodically we intend to offer a brief review of a contemporary book that sheds light on issues such as war, torture, terrorism and their aftermaths, as … Continue reading
Posted in Armed conflict, Book reviews, Moral disengagement, Torture
Tagged abuse, activists, advantageous comparison, Albert Bandura, euphemistic labeling, government, human rights, Iraq, Joshua E.S. Phillips, military, moral disengagement, Sargeant Adam Gray, torture, trauma, victims, war
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Conservative and liberal world views
One of the theorists to be considered in greater detail in later posts is George Lakoff. We introduce several of his main ideas here because they are relevant to how readers are likely to respond to this blog; specifically, Lakoff … Continue reading
Posted in Peace studies
Tagged activists, advocacy, anti-war, authority, conservatives, doves, empathy, enemy, evil, fairness, fulfillment, George Lakoff, hawks, helping, liberals, moral order, Moral Politics, moral reasoning, morality, nurturing, patriotic, pro-war, protecting, protestors, punishment, responsibility, reward, self-discipline, self-reliance, strengthening, strict father, theory
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