"Who doesn't want peace?" you might ask yourself. But look around
you: War and human rights violations are everywhere. Fear is a
dominant cultural bond. Meanwhile, so many of us consent to this
aggression when it is done by the government we think represents
us. Why Peace is about our aspirations to our own progression, to
where peaceful and voluntary societal systems and associations
replace the machinery of aggression and coercion. Only by
interacting peacefully can we achieve a more harmonious,
prosperous, healthy, fair and tolerant society. This book is an
exploration of aggression, and of the evolutionary (and
revolutionary) process to peace. Through the insights of men and
women, from a wide range of backgrounds, cultures, and
perspectives, Why Peace presents stories of wars, invasions, and
political repressions down to the most basic levels of
authoritarianism. These individuals share mind-opening and
inspiring personal experiences with state violence: North Korean
gulag prisoners, exiled journalists, soldiers at war (and some who
refused to go back), Colombian campesinos displaced by drug war
fumigations, people violently displaced by their government for
private corporate interests in the Amazon, families run over by
war, victims of cluster bombs in Southeast Asia, Guant namo
prisoners, a Cuban student denied the rights to speak and organize,
and much more.Also in this collaboration are military officers,
former state officials, political prisoners, activists, economists,
aid workers, and others. Each has contributed to this work to help
demonstrate the philosophy, morality, and universal benefits of
non-aggression and protecting human rights. Seventy-eight people,
from thirty-four countries on five continents, share their stories
here. Find out why they all came to a similar conclusion: peace is
best for all and its time has come.
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