
Creating a Culture of Peace
The foregoing material might be likened to the hardware of an Alternative Global Security System. It dealt with the actual hardware of war and the

The foregoing material might be likened to the hardware of an Alternative Global Security System. It dealt with the actual hardware of war and the

No single strategy will end war. Strategies must be layered and woven together to be effective. In what follows, each element is stated as concisely

Thinking that war is inevitable makes it so; it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking that ending war is possible opens the door to constructive work on

The Iron Cage of War: The Present War System Described When centralized states began to form in the ancient world, they were faced with a

Whatever purpose the war system might once have served, it has now become dysfunctional to future human survival, yet it has not been abolished. Patricia

We will know we have achieved peace when the world is safe for all the children. They will play freely out of doors, never worrying

Executive Summary Resting on a convincing body of evidence that violence is not a necessary component of conflict among states and between states and non-state


Volunteers have stepped forward to become World Beyond War country coordinators in over a dozen countries, and a group of activists in Vermont has proposed