UID:
kobvindex_ZMS08145521
Format:
XIV, 203 Seiten
ISBN:
0679643354
Series Statement:
Modern library chronicles
Content:
Der Autor beschreibt die vielfältigen Bemühungen um Gewaltfreiheit im Laufe der Geschichte und vertritt die Ansicht, Kriege und militärische Gewalt hätten vermieden werden können.
Content:
Nonviolence is a sweeping yet concise history that moves from ancient Hindu times to present-day conflicts raging in the Middle East and elsewhere. Kurlansky also brings into focus just why nonviolence is a "dangerous" idea, and asks such provocative questions as: Is there such a thing as a "just war"? Could nonviolence have worked against even the most evil regimes in history? Kurlansky draws from history twenty-five provocative lessons on the subject that we can use to effect change today. He shows how, time and again, violence is used to suppress nonviolence and its practitioners - Gandhi and Martin Luther King, for example; that the stated deterrence value of standing national armies and huge weapons arsenals is, at best, negligible; and, encouragingly, that much of the hard work necessary to begin a movement to end war is already complete. It simply needs to be embraced and accelerated. (MOD)
Language:
English
Keywords:
Historische Darstellung
