By David Cortright
ISBN-10: 0521854024
ISBN-13: 9780521854023
Veteran pupil and peace activist David Cortright deals a definitive background of the human striving for peace and an research of its spiritual and highbrow roots. This authoritative, balanced, and hugely readable quantity lines the increase of peace advocacy and internationalism from their origins in prior centuries in the course of the mass routine of contemporary many years: the pacifist campaigns of the Thirties, the Vietnam antiwar circulation, and the waves of disarmament activism that peaked within the Eighties. additionally explored are the underlying rules of peace - nonviolence, democracy, social justice, and human rights - all positioned inside of a framework of 'realistic pacifism'. Peace brings the tale updated by way of reading competition to the Iraq battle and responses to the so-called 'war on terror'. this is often heritage with a latest twist, set within the context of present debates approximately 'the accountability to protect', nuclear proliferation, Darfur, and clash transformation.
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16 The growth of continental peace societies was aided by AngloAmerican peace pioneers, who traveled to the Netherlands, Belgium, western Germany, and France in the first half of the nineteenth century, lecturing, arranging for the translation of documents, and inviting supporters to London. Peace advocacy emerged in Japan in the late nineteenth century but did not reach mass scale until after World War II. As in Europe, AngloAmerican influence was helpful in getting things started. A series of lectures in Japan by William Jones of the British Peace Society sparked the founding of the first peace society, Nihon heiwa-kai, in November 1889.
Howes (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1978), 35, 56. John F. Howes, “Uchimura Kanzō: The Bible and War,” in Pacifism in Japan, 91–2. Robert Kisala, Prophets of Peace: Pacifism and Cultural Identity in Japan’s New Religions (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1999), 3. 22 They were personally conservative, mostly Congregationalist and Unitarian, with the active participation of Quakers. They were humanitarians and reformers who combined Christian millennialism with faith in human progress.
J. E. Cookson, The Friends of Peace: Anti-War Liberalism in England, 1793–1815 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982), 127–9. Martin Ceadel, The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations 1730–1854 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996). Brock, Freedom from War, 23. 28 Movements quickly attracted Anglicans and other non-Quakers to its ranks. Like their US counterparts the British peace advocates believed that war was inconsistent with the spirit of Christianity and contrary to the interests of humankind.



