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Structural Violence and Peaceful
Conflict Transformation:
Transcending the State:
From States of War to Communities of Peace ,
New Discourses, New Visions,
New Realities
By Kai Frithjof
Brand-Jacobsen
Director & Satyagrahi, The
ICL/Praxis for Peace
In the opening years of the
twenty-first century the dominant discourse of world order is
confronted by a range of challenges which threaten to destabilise
the hegemonic power of the ruling State structure.
Fidel
Castro's Speech to the UN about World Poverty
"... each year, 12 million children under five
years of age die.... Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in
no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as
those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet..."
Edward
Said:
Reflections
on American injustice
Johan Galtung:
*zip-file
[download winzip]
After
Violence: 3Rs, Reconstruction, Reconciliation, Resolution*
Carl
Gustav Jacobsen with Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen
Poverty
and War
Kai Frithjof
Brand-Jacobsen:
Beyond
Mediation: Towards More Holistic Approaches to Peacebuilding and Peace
Actor Empowerment
Louis
Kriesberg: *zip-file
[download winzip]
"Fighting
Conflicts Constructively"
"Paths
to Varieties * of Inter-Communal Reconciliation"
Dietrich
Fischer:
On Alternative security and conflict
transformation:
How
Haiti and Panama abolished their military
An
active peace policy
The
black hole
Nonmilitary
forms of defense
Preventing
On commitment 1: Creating
an environment that will enable people to achieve social development: The
world economy as a cybernetic system On
commitment 2: Eradicating poverty: Alleviating
global economic crises On
commitment 4: Participation of all people: Democracy
helps resolve conflicts On
commitment 6: Including sustainable development: Learning
from nature On
commitment 9: Increasing significantly and/or utilizing more
efficiently, the resources allocated to social development: A
world treasury (includes discussion about Tobin tax) A
global peace service On
commitment 10: International regional and subregional cooperation for
social development, in a spirit of partnership, through the United
Nations or other multilateral institutions: Strengthening
the United Nations and it's family of organizations
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