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Pacific Island Partnership: The Pacific Cancer Initiative

Journal of Cancer Education, 2006
Cancer is a leading cause of mortality in the US Associated Pacific Island Nations (USAPIN) due to few resources for prevention, screening, and treatment.We describe the formation of the Pacific Cancer Initiative (PCI), and the Cancer Council of the Pacific Islands (CCPI)to address the rising cancer burden in USA PIN.
Neal A, Palafox, Kamal, Gunawardane, Yorah, Demei   +2 more
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The Economic Case for Practical Pacifism*

Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence
This paper offers an economic case for practical pacifism. Practical pacifism, in contrast to absolute pacifism, recognizes that, while it is possible that state-led war may be justified in some cases, it is extremely difficult to determine if any ...
Christopher J. Coyne, A. Hall
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Toward an Ontology of Pacifism: Three Ontological Intuitions of the Pacifist Tradition

Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence
The paper explores the ontology of pacifism by considering authors and texts in the pacifist tradition. It analyzes three generally shared commitments of the authors in this tradition: (1) that peace is a positive reality, (2) that interdependence and ...
Andrew Fiala
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Pacifism and Non-Violence in Contemporary Islamic Philosophy

In Pacifism and Nonviolence in Contemporary Islamic Philosophy, Tom Woerner-Powell combines historical analysis and contemporary interviews with Muslim peace advocates in an effort to develop an empirically grounded survey of Islamic philosophies of ...
Tom Woerner-Powell
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The Subjugation of Pacifism in UK Parliamentary Discourse: Analysing the 2015 Debate on Bombing Syria

Global Society, 2020
This article shows how pacifism is discursively constituted within politics. Employing Critical Discourse Analysis, it demonstrates how official narratives worked to depoliticise pacifism during the 2015 House of Commons debate on taking military action ...
Olivia Reeves O’Toole
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Pacifism in International Relations

, 2021
The aim of this chapter is to explore the contribution of pacifism to international relations (IR), and in particular to demonstrate its relevance to discussions around peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation.
R. Jackson
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Pacific Security in the Pacific Century

Current History, 1994
After 150 years of war and military tension, the Asia Pacific is today at peace. The current lull in more than a century of conflict has led some to assume that the Pacific Century will be pacific. This belief has been occasioned not only by the end of the Cold War, but also by the assumption that the economic interdependence of the Asia Pacific ...
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Toward Prefigurative Pacifism: The Case of the Bulgarian Tolstoyans and the Proslav Vegetarian Intentional Community

Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence
This paper proposes a conceptual bridge between pacifism and prefigurative politics through the introduction of the notion of prefigurative pacifism. While pacifism is often viewed as apolitical or utopian, the paper argues for a prefigurative framing ...
Borislav Galinov Tsokov
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A Niebuhrian pacifism for an imperfect world

, 2020
This article considers the role that might be played by the political thought of Reinhold Niebuhr in contemporary debates over pacifism. It begins with an overview of Niebuhr’s changing position on pacifism, showing how his early commitment to anti-war ...
J. Moses
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Pacific

2020
Abstract The chapter “Pacific” explains about scientific and technological sites of adult interest in Alaska, California, Hawaiʻi, Oregon, and Washington, including the Anchorage Museum, San Diego Air & Space Museum, Pacific Tsunami Museum, Fort Clatsop, and the Museum of Flight.
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