“A Global Security System: An Alternative to War” – 2016 Edition Now Available
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Executive Summary Vision Introduction : A Blueprint for Ending War Why is an Alternative Global Security System both Desirable and Necessary? The Iron Cage of War:
Resting on a convincing body of evidence that violence is not a necessary component of conflict among states and between states and non-state actors, World
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For a range of reasons, the work of ending war can’t wait.
The War System rests on a set of interlocked beliefs and values that have been around so long that their veracity and utility are taken for granted and they go mostly unquestioned although they are demonstrably false.
The benefits of ending war are numerous and wide-ranging.
In living memory we have seen the way war brings not peace but, at best, a temporary truce, a desire for revenge, and a new arms race until the next war
