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Building the Institutions of Peace - Swarthmore Lecture 1962 (Paperback)
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Building the Institutions of Peace - Swarthmore Lecture 1962 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Peace Studies
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The pacifist principle, so cogently expressed in the Declaration to
Charles II, has led succeeding generations of Quakers to consider
the application of this principle to international affairs. William
Penn's 'Essay towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe',
which proposes international machinery for keeping the peace, is
the first of a series of Quaker contributions to a body of thought
which has been given some practical expression during the twentieth
century. Originally published in 1962, the present lecture is not
occasioned by a significant anniversary of William Penn's essay,
published in 1693, but by the urgent relevance of its ideas to the
current international impasse. The lecture is based on the
assumption that the tradition of Quaker political thinking which
Penn initiated remains a living and vital one, to whose cultivation
and renewal Friends can rightly devote a measure of their time,
their energy and their concern. This requires that Friends think
deeply about the nature of the present struggle for world power and
the measures that can be taken to abate it; about the direction
which existing international institutions should take in order to
promote the present and the future peace of the world; and about
the role of a religious society both within and without the realm
of politics. Of necessity and intention, the lecture asks more
questions than it can answer.
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