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A Global Security System: An Alternative to War Paperback – September 5, 2017

by Kent Shifferd (Author), Patrick Hiller (Author), David Swanson (Author)

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Resting on a convincing body of evidence that violence is not a necessary component of conflict among states and between states and non-state actors, World Beyond War asserts that war itself can be ended. We humans have lived without war for most of our existence and most people live without war most of the time. Warfare arose about 6,000 years ago (less than 5% of our existence as Homo sapiens) and spawned a vicious cycle of warfare as peoples, fearing attack by militarized states found it necessary to imitate them and so began the cycle of violence that has culminated in the last 100 years in a condition of permawar. War now threatens to destroy civilization as weapons have become ever more destructive. However, in the last 150 years, revolutionary new knowledge and methods of nonviolent conflict management have been developing that lead us to assert that it is time to end warfare and that we can do so by mobilizing millions around a global effort.

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"A must-read for everyone trying to create a world beyond war." --Mairead Maguire

"What a treasure. It is so well written and conceptualized. The beautiful text and design immediately captured the attention and imagination of my 90 graduate and undergraduate students. Visually and substantively, the clarity of the book appeals to young people in a way textbooks have not." --Barbara Wien, American University

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Publisher : World Beyond War; 2017th edition (September 5, 2017)
Language : English
Paperback : 94 pages
ISBN-10 : 0998085928
ISBN-13 : 978-0998085920
Item Weight : 8.5 ounces
Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.19 x 11 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,828,078 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,900 in War & Peace (Books)
- #38,184 in International & World Politics (Books)

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D. Steiner

That the preponderance of pain and want on Earth is directly caused by the Military/industrial Complex and liars seeking power!

Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2018

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So far I have found it correct and doable as well as pertinent and timely. I'm about half way through it.

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Kathryn A Converse

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Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2017

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This volume shows us a plan of how to end the notion that war is inevitable!

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Donna Alger

Paradigm Shift from $Wars$ to Worldwide Peace

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2015

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A great paradigm sift from our institutionalize do warmongering to true peace, love, and understanding of all God's children of our shared planet Earth! This book provides a positive vision and path forward for all who are tired of aggression and killing and who long for peace and harmony for all.

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David Hartsough

Great Book!!!!!!

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2015

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A Great book for all those who are sick and tired of the war system and want to hear the good thinking about how we could throw the wars into the trash bins of history and build a peace system which could provide much better security as a fraction of the financial cost and have close to two trillion dollars freed up for creating a much better life for every person on the planet.

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William W. Habedank

Think there is no pathway to global peace? Think ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2016

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Think there is no pathway to global peace? Think again! This is the most comprehensive path I have seen.

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Dr. Gary B. Brumback

Sift through Mr. Swansons many ideas and those of two other books for a path to peace.

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2015

I must dissent from Leszek Syski's two-star review. There are many ideas, some good, some awful, about how to bring peace to the world, a mission not impossible and absolutely necessary to avoid the Doomsday Clock reaching midnight. If enough well intentioned but underperforming organizations were to sift through the hundreds of initiatives proposed in Mr. Swanson's book and in two of mine, The Devil's Marriage: Break Up the Corpocracy or Leave Democracy in the Lurch;and America's Oldest Professions: Warring and Spying, the steps necessary to replace the temples of war with temples of peace would be crystal clear. The most difficult step would be mobilizing a massive, collective will to move away from war and toward peace.

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Joe Scarry

A book for people who say, "Of course war is bad . . . . but what's the alternative?"

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2015

This book is the perfect accompaniment to the thousands of acts of constructive peacemaking being done by people all over the world, day-in, day-out. Those of us who are actively doing this work benefit by seeing how all the pieces fit together, AND by being reminded that each of our little pieces is being complemented by many others, and that they add up to a whole that is going to succeed. Many people say, "OK, of course war is bad . . . . but what's the alternative?" This book gives them a new story: "Yes, war is bad . . . . and there's an alternative and I can be part of making it happen."

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Steve McKeown

Read it and see where you fit in.

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2015

This is a work of hope and faith in creating a better world instead of the despair of clinging to the extractive economy and the mutual admiration society of the arms merchants and their proponents. What is really valuable is the practical components outlined to bring this change about. Instead of the false choice of cheer up it is going to get worse or it is all over but the crying we have real choices. The case is made well in this book.

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J H Morris

Time for an American Peace Party

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2017

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The sentiments and content match closely with those devised and used by The Peace Party - Non-violence, Justice, Environment over many years in its campaigning in national, local and European election in the UK over twenty years. Perhaps it is time for a peace party to emerge in the United States to use and implement the well-written and well-researched programme described in World Beyond War's latest publication.

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