(This is section 17 of the World Beyond War white paper A Global Security System: An Alternative to War. Continue to preceding | following section.) See four separate parts of the paper that compose the “Alternative Security System” […]
(This is section 18 of the World Beyond War white paper A Global Security System: An Alternative to War. Continue to preceding | following section.) Conflict management as practiced in the iron cage of war is self-defeating. In what is […]
“Conflicts typical of the contemporary world cannot be resolved at gunpoint. They require not a recalibration of military tools and strategies but a far-reaching commitment to demilitarization.”
A first step toward demilitarizing security could be non-provocative defense, which is to reconceive and re-configure training, logistics, doctrine, and weaponry so that a nation’s military is seen by its neighbors to be unsuitable for offense but clearly able to mount a credible defense of its borders.
Civilian-based defense deploys a powerful coercive force that does not require military action.
Withdrawing to an authentic defense of a nation’s borders is a key part of demilitarizing security, thus weakening the ability of the War System to create global insecurity.
Disarmament is an obvious step leading toward a world beyond war.
The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) is guided by the vision of promoting global norms of disarmament and oversees efforts to deal with weapons of mass destruction and conventional arms and the arms trade.
The problems with drone attacks are legal, moral, and practical.
Weapons of mass destruction are a powerful positive feedback to the War System, strengthening its spread and ensuring that wars that do occur have the potential for planet-altering destruction.
