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Mainstreaming Pacifism - Conflict, Success, and Ethics (Hardcover)
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Mainstreaming Pacifism - Conflict, Success, and Ethics (Hardcover)
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Mainstreaming Pacifism. Conflict, success, and ethics takes on the
challenge of answering the widespread objection that pacifism is
ineffective. The book proposes a classification of 11 effectual
means to an end (fraud, violence, force, gain, legality, masses,
ideology, dialogue, humanity, time, vulnerability), and shows how
such means have been at work both in the pages of classical
political authors (Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Marx and Gandhi) and
throughout history. Such effectual means are not only theoretically
described, but are related to up-to-date experimental research, are
observed in action when conflicts arise, and the general laws that
govern their functioning are described. The main goal of the book
is to show that violence is only one of such potentially successful
political means. In presence of the political decision to act
peacefully in international relations, apt combinations of
non-violent effectual means may succeed over violence. The
challenge taken on in this book is staying faithful to the topic of
political success, while offering arguments for a peaceful
resolution of conflicts. The result is an original
cross-investigation, which gives visibility to an intriguing
notion, effectuality, that has been silently at work throughout
political philosophy, without ever having been thematized.
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