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JAWDAT SA’ID ON PACIFISM AND VIOLENCE TODAY

open access: yesCMES (Center of Middle Eastern Studies)
Nonviolence and pacifism are widely recognized and understood by various religions and cultures. Since the 1960s, a particular group of intellectuals, theologians, and religious leaders in the Muslim world have been working to establish a theoretical ...
Sabina Abdulaev
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John Bloch’s The Future of War Pacifism Based on Economics

open access: yesAnnales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2016
John Bloch (1839–1902) was a railroad tycoon, banker, social activist, philanthropist and man of science. He was shortlisted for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1902 for his multi-volume work entitled The Future of War in its Technical, Economic and Political ...
Andrzej Pieczewski
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The Anti-War Adoption of Lord of the Rings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Ten years after Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy was first published in 1954, an unexpected party discovered Middle-earth. America’s counterculture adopted the series, despite its largely conservative, patriarchal, and militant ideologies.
Spencer, Kayla
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Educational Pacifism and Montessori

open access: yesJournal of Montessori Research
Educational theory and practice is dominated by mass formal schooling systems, which routinely and unjustly harm many students. I call this stance “educational pacifism,” and in this paper argue that Montessorians ought to be educational pacifists. That
Nicholas Parkin
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The British Peace Movement in the Interwar Years

open access: yesRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2017
1918 was regarded by many observers at the time as marking the end of an era and the death of the old international order. Hopes for a peaceful future and a deep-rooted abhorrence of war as a means of settling international disputes were characteristic ...
Richard Davis
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Pacifist rejoinders to the ‘Hitler question’

open access: yesEuropean Journal of International Security
This article tackles head-on a question that is often thought to defeat pacifism: ‘How then would you react against a Nazi invasion?’ That multiple wars are still recurrently justified as necessary to confront yet another ‘Hitler’ makes tackling this ...
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
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Pacifism and Emotional Arousal

open access: yes, 1991
Excerpt: At the age of eighteen, American youths must make an ideological decision about war. Although most probably perceive selective service registration as little more than a rite of passage, others struggle with the ethics of military service and ...
Benson, Stephen L.   +4 more
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Pennington to Raymond Wilson, August 19, 1948

open access: yes, 1948
Pennington writing to Raymond Wilson, Executive Secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, about pacifism and civil disobedience.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/levi_pennington/1280/thumbnail ...
Pennington, Levi T.
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La Asociación Sud-Americana de Paz Universal y Ángela Oliveira Cézar: pacifismo, activismo trasnacional y «diplomacia femenina»

open access: yesLes Cahiers ALHIM
This article analyzes the Asociación Sud-Americana de Paz Universal (Buenos Aires, 1907) as a space for female action that embraced the ideals of internationalist pacifism.
Paula Bruno
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Peace Cinema: Religious Pacifism and Anti-War Sensibility in Friendly Persuasion (1956)

open access: yesOpen Screens, 2019
Through close examination of William Wyler’s 1956 film Friendly Persuasion, this article describes the complex ways in which this western melodrama seeks to foster an anti-war sensibility via engagement with the experience and commitments of religious ...
Guy Richard Westwell
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