(This is section 53 of the World Beyond War white paper A Global Security System: An Alternative to War. Continue to preceding | following section.)
A culture of peace depends on the dealing with the “climate of thought” that allows politicians and everyone else to prepare for and carry out massive violence.
Twenty-eight trends are clearly visible leading toward a developing global peace system.
Modern societies are often guided by a set of beliefs about conflict that are at best unquestioned myths. These need to be widely challenged.
Today the single most important responsibility of national governments and governing agreements at the international level is the protection of the commons.
The new fields of peace research and peace education developed in the wake of the catastrophe that was World War II and accelerated in the 1980s after the world came close to nuclear annihilation.
In peace journalism, editors and writers give the reader a chance to consider nonviolent responses to conflict rather than the usual knee-jerk reaction of counter violence.
