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    • Anthony Rapoport, editor
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  • The Abolition of War
  • Rationality and Social Traps
  • The Systemic View
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Whose Security Does “Defence” Defend?

March 17, 2024 AnthonyLeave a comment

If increased destructive potential enhances security, one must conclude that people are more secure today than they were thirty years ago. Are they?

Posted in The Abolition of War

The Ticking Bomb of Peace and Conflict Studies

March 15, 2024 AnthonyLeave a comment

Indoctrination achieves its results by narrowing the channels along which thoughts are allowed to run. Enlightenment broadens both the range of knowledge and ways of attaining it.

Posted in The Abolition of War

The Seduction of the Scientist

March 14, 2024 AnthonyLeave a comment

It is discouraging to see in the current debate on national security, outstanding scientists in the service of demagogy, rationalizing their betrayal of the scientific ethos by posing as "hard-headed realists" condescendingly explaining the facts of life to the naive.

Posted in The Abolition of War

The Scientific Approach to Ethics and its Consequences

March 12, 2024March 14, 2024 AnthonyLeave a comment

Science is the only human activity which taps the really universal commonality of human experience at its roots.

Posted in The Systemic View

Three Modes of Conflict

January 14, 2023 AnthonyLeave a comment

The three modes of conflict suggest three approaches to peace research, the systemic, the strategic and the ideological. If peace research is to contribute to the hope of establishing a durable peace on this planet, all three directions must be synthesized into a science of peace.

Posted in The Abolition of War

Reconciliation and Resistance: Two Sides of a Coin (c. 1991)

July 11, 2022 AnthonyLeave a comment

Let poverty, disease, injustice, tyranny play the role of the common enemy of humankind. And of course the institution of war can play the star part.

Posted in The Abolition of War

Moratorium Day – October 15, 1969

January 9, 2022January 9, 2022 AnthonyLeave a comment

Our ancestors used to say that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Americans, in their comfort, their pursuit of individual advantages, in their worship of the bitch goddess of success, forgot to pay the instalments, and their liberties were re-possessed.

Posted in The Abolition of War

Can Humanity Eliminate War?

July 14, 2021 AnthonyLeave a comment

Put in this way, the question suggests that humanity is an actor endowed with intentions and a range of capabilities for carrying these intentions out. The question is similar to questions like "Can John stop drinking?" or "Can Tokyo reduce traffic accidents?" These questions can be answered by "yes" or "no," because both John  and… Continue reading Can Humanity Eliminate War? →

Posted in The Abolition of War

Open Letter to Lt. Calley

July 9, 2021 AnthonyLeave a comment

Reflections on morality occasioned by a rare American war crimes trial.

Posted in The Abolition of War

The Relevance of the Systemic Outlook to our Present Predicament

July 8, 2021 AnthonyLeave a comment

Humane values are inherent in science, viewed not primarily as a source of know-how in manipulating things or people but rather as a source of wisdom, a spiritually inspired human enterprise which has transcended its purely instrumental origins.

Posted in The Abolition of War, The Systemic View

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