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Toward a Theory of Peace
The Role of Moral Beliefs
Randall Caroline Watson Forsberg (Author), Matthew Evangelista (Edited by), Neta C. Crawford (Edited by)
9781501744358
Paperback / softback, published 15 December 2019
270 pages, 10 tables - 10 Tables, unspecified
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg
As revealed by this remarkable book, the text of which comes from her 1997 doctoral dissertation, Forsberg was also a thoughtful theorist of peace studies and political change...Her thesis is a dazzling intellectual tour de force with a sobering conclusion: moral revolutions take many lifetimes to unfold, requiring centuries of dedication and struggle.
Military analyst, peace activist, teacher, and social theorist Randall Caroline Watson Forsberg (1943–2007) founded the Nuclear Freeze campaign and the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies. In Toward a Theory of Peace, completed in 1997 and published for the first time here, she delves into a vast literature in psychology, anthropology, archeology, sociology, and history to examine the ways in which changing moral beliefs came to stigmatize forms of "socially sanctioned violence" such as human sacrifice, cannibalism, and slavery, eventually rendering them unacceptable. Could the same process work for war? Edited and with an introduction by political scientists Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University) and Neta C. Crawford (Boston University), both of whom worked with Forsberg.
Foreward
Sundowner
1. Notes from the Hastings Natural History Reservation
2. Notes from the Santa Cruz Island Reserve
3. Notes from the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory
4. Notes from the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest
5. Notes from the North Cascades Environmental Learning Cente