Stable PeaceThe human race has often put a high value on struggle, strife, turmoil, and excitement. Peace has been regarded as a utopian, unattainable, perhaps dull ideal or as some random element over which we have no control. However, the desperate necessities of the nuclear age have forced us to take peace seriously as an object of both personal and national policy. Stable Peace attempts to answer the question, If we had a policy for peace, what would it look like? A policy for peace aims to speed up the historically slow, painful, but persistent transition from a state of continual war and turmoil to one of continual peace. In a stable peace, the war-peace system is tipped firmly toward peace and away from the cycle of folly, illusion, and ill will that leads to war. Boulding proposes a number of modest, easily attainable, eminently reasonable policies directed toward this goal. His recommendations include the removal of national boundaries from political agendas, the encouragement of reciprocal acts of good will between potential enemies, the exploration of the theory and practice of nonviolence, the development of governmental and nongovernmental organizations to promote peace, and the development of research in the whole area of peace and conflict management. Written in straightforward, lucid prose, Stable Peace will be of importance to politicians, policy makers, economists, diplomats, all concerned citizens, and all those interested in international relations and the resolution of conflict. |
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... behaviors and actions . The range of physically pos- sible behaviors is quite large : we may go up on a roof and jump ... behavior and particularly determines their taboos : what people do not do is just as important as what they do do ...
... behavior , nonconflictual behavior is of far greater quantitative importance . Conflictual behavior , indeed , has to be seen as a kind of brightly colored per- iphery of a great , rather commonplace mass of noncon- flictual behavior ...
... behavior - not more than a quarter -so in terms of behavior the greatest war effort in hu- man history is probably not more than 10 percent of the total behavior even of the contending parties and is a much smaller proportion of the ...