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Human Rights Watch - Defending Human Rights Worldwide Hoover Institution What Have We Done Wrong/Right in the War on Terror There's a terrific piece in the National Journal today, adding up the costs of the "war on terror" and pointing out that unlike some other costly wars in American history, this one has produced almost no economic benefits. That is, unless you think people standing in TSA lines are using those idle minutes (hours?) to dream up lots of innovative new ideas that will fire up the U.S. economy. I rather doubt it. If we had a rational discourse on this subject, it ought to provoke two questions. First, how did we get into this mess in the first place? The second question would be: which responses to 9/11 have worked well, and which policies have proven to be costly failures? That is how a mature great power would deal with the vast and costly response that began on 9/11: it would try to learn the right lessons from the past decade so that it did better the next time it faced an unexpected challenge.
Peace Building - Clements Kevin P. Clements The world clearly needs some new ways of thinking about old problems and new ways of acting if we are going to survive into the 21st century. It is vital, therefore, that students of peace and conflict work out ways of harnessing the creative imagination of everyone so that all peoples can envisage a positive future and ways of realizing that future. In relation to this imaging, peace and conflict theorists need to learn from evolutionary theorists if they are to play a significant part in global survival. What is missing in most of the social sciences and in much of our work in conflict analysis and resolution are opportunities to hear what the voiceless, the marginalized, the excluded and the victims have to say. What is also missing are dialogues across the huge social fissures -- those of class, those that exist between persons locked into cultures of violence and those working to build cultures of peace, as well as those that flow from gender and ethnicity.
Europe - Fondation Robert Schuman Freedoms Zone::Blog CHALLENGES FOR PEACE RESEARCHERS AND PEACE BUILDERS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: EDUCATION AND COORDINATION OF A DIVERSITY OF ACTORS IN APPLYING WHAT WE ARE LEARNING - Chadwick F. Alger; The International Journal for Peace Studies Chadwick F. Alger Introduction Peace research has made great strides in the last half of the Twentieth Century. Most significant, our paradigms now include positive peace as well negative peace, thereby inclusive of economic, human rights and ecological concerns. In this last decade of the Twentieth Century there has been such a torrent of literature that it is difficult to comprehend major trends and contributions. Peace research is obviously being enriched by the tendency to encompass ever more kinds of actors and issues, and at the same time to illuminate the interdependencies of an array of peace related actors and issues. Five Peace Research Trends First, there are increasing efforts to develop approaches to peace building that combine a number of tools into comprehensive strategies. Second, as reflected in the Zartman work, there is growing attention to the importance of pursuing multiple tracks simultaneously. Third, there is a growing tendency to take a long term perspective.