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Nothing threatens us today more than the 50,000 nuclear warheads that stand in a state of near readiness around the globe. Yet in the year 2010 the world is at peace and the threat of nuclear devastation has vanished.
How did this come about? Through the imaginative ideas of forty men and women - lawyers, doctors, professors, conflict research specialists - we see a wide variety of scenarios explaining how the world learned to prevent warfare.
Writing from the United States, Switzerland, Austria, and West Germany, the authors of these essays show that even in an imperfect world of practical politics, there are many paths to peace. They provide a wealth of original yet workable approaches to peace that are as varied as the people who long for it.
How can these amateurs fix up the world? By not accepting that war is inevitable, by forcing their leaders to take bold steps, and by becoming an informed citizenship. Their peace scenarios are grouped into several main approaches - awakening through disaster, playing the superpower game, flanking the superpowers, improving the machinery of peace, changes of consciousness, action groups, and citizen exchanges.
Most essays tackle the Soviet-American rivalry first, while others emphasize acts by nonsuperpowers. Some assign bold leadership roles to individuals like Congressman Jack Kemp and Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole, or call for a change in consciousness about who is the enemy. Ronald Reagan makes an irresistible vehicle for surprise peace initiatives. Others use existing institutions, such as the Department of Defense, the League of Women Voters, or the United Nations, in strategies leading to peace.
Richard D. Lamm, Governor of Colorado, describes a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan as the catalyst for peace - as horrified viewers witness a nuclear war on television, a tidal wave of peace moves through the world. Kenneth Boulding sees the 21st century ushering in a New Region of Time in which capitalist and communist nations agree to live and let live. And Randy Fritz of Smithville, Texas proposes an exchange of military observers at the highest levels. Taking his cue from game theory, he notes that cooperation is ultimately the most successful form of competitive human behavior.
All the essays were chosen from entries to "Peace 2010," a contest sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor. Earl W. Foell, the Editor in Chief of the Monitor and Richard A. Nenneman, the Monitor's Managing Editor, have written introductions to each thematic chapter. In a concluding note, Lincoln Bloomfield, MIT professor and former national security council official, analyzes the essays and compares them to the work of peace professionals.
How did this come about? Through the imaginative ideas of forty men and women - lawyers, doctors, professors, conflict research specialists - we see a wide variety of scenarios explaining how the world learned to prevent warfare.
Writing from the United States, Switzerland, Austria, and West Germany, the authors of these essays show that even in an imperfect world of practical politics, there are many paths to peace. They provide a wealth of original yet workable approaches to peace that are as varied as the people who long for it.
How can these amateurs fix up the world? By not accepting that war is inevitable, by forcing their leaders to take bold steps, and by becoming an informed citizenship. Their peace scenarios are grouped into several main approaches - awakening through disaster, playing the superpower game, flanking the superpowers, improving the machinery of peace, changes of consciousness, action groups, and citizen exchanges.
Most essays tackle the Soviet-American rivalry first, while others emphasize acts by nonsuperpowers. Some assign bold leadership roles to individuals like Congressman Jack Kemp and Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole, or call for a change in consciousness about who is the enemy. Ronald Reagan makes an irresistible vehicle for surprise peace initiatives. Others use existing institutions, such as the Department of Defense, the League of Women Voters, or the United Nations, in strategies leading to peace.
Richard D. Lamm, Governor of Colorado, describes a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan as the catalyst for peace - as horrified viewers witness a nuclear war on television, a tidal wave of peace moves through the world. Kenneth Boulding sees the 21st century ushering in a New Region of Time in which capitalist and communist nations agree to live and let live. And Randy Fritz of Smithville, Texas proposes an exchange of military observers at the highest levels. Taking his cue from game theory, he notes that cooperation is ultimately the most successful form of competitive human behavior.
All the essays were chosen from entries to "Peace 2010," a contest sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor. Earl W. Foell, the Editor in Chief of the Monitor and Richard A. Nenneman, the Monitor's Managing Editor, have written introductions to each thematic chapter. In a concluding note, Lincoln Bloomfield, MIT professor and former national security council official, analyzes the essays and compares them to the work of peace professionals.
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This distillation of 1300 essays submitted in the Christian Science Monitor's Peace 2010 contest has been grouped with thematic introductions by two Monitor editors into seven categories: awakening through disaster, superpower confrontation, flanking the superpowers, peace machinery, changes of consciousness, action groups, and citizen exchanges. From the perspective of 2010, contestants explained in varied ways how the world achieved peace. Some hewed to practical policy lines; others were a bit fanciful. But these scenarios, submitted by persons from all walks of life, are imaginative challenges to the peace professions and serve democracy well by pointing out to our leaders many workable paths to peace. As noted in the conclusion, the essays reveal that an "extraordinary storehouse of `peace energy' lies beneath the surface of our society." Clifton E. Wilson, Political Science Dept., Univ. of Arizona, Tucson
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Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The year is 2010, the arms race has ended, and the world is at peace. How did it happen? That was the question posed by the Christian Science Monitor in a "Peace 2010" essay contest, and some 1300 people (from business, academia, etc.) submitted their own peace-making scenarios, 40 of which are printed in this unusual volume. Devoting a chapter to each of the essayists' solutions (peace through disaster; improved U.S.-Soviet relations; better peace-making machinery), the editors offer thoughtful analyses of the writers' diverse, often detailed and realistic entries. From the most frightening (a televised nuclear battle between India and Pakistan) to the quietest (citizen exchanges among nations), the possibilities of peace envisioned here form a stimulating book. February 7
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherMit Pr
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0262061007
- ISBN 13 9780262061001
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages272
- EditorNenneman Richard A.
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