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Interconnections Between Peace and Other Social Movements

Interconnections Between Peace and Other Social Movements. Interconnections between peace movement and other social movement : Feminist antimilitarism Focus on economic justice : economic costs of military expenditure. The United States.

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Interconnections Between Peace and Other Social Movements

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  1. Interconnections Between Peace and Other Social Movements • Interconnections between peace movement and other social movement : Feminist antimilitarism • Focus on economic justice : economic costs of military expenditure

  2. The United States • Contemporary peace movement in US has been blamed for being a concern of middle-class white people. • focus on one issue at a time, as earlier concerns are abandoned and the latest issue attracts most of the energy and outrage. • motivated by a surge of popular anxiety regarding a perceived that quickly subsides, even though the underlying problem remains a serious as ever.

  3. Europe • Green Party (West Germany) : Ecology, feminism, political decentralization, community and workplace democracy, antiauthoritarianism and antimilitarism. • CND (campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in United Kingdom) : populist movement, opposition to nuclear weapons policies, women’s and ecological movements, gay and lesbian rights

  4. Some Internal Debates Within Peace Movements Peace movements are not same, they are fickleness Ideological heterogeneity and occasional combative

  5. State-Centeredness • NATO it is essential to reform the way states behave toward one another by encouraging trade, democracy, disarmament conference and agreements on the rules of war states are the problem, real solutions must be less state-centered

  6. The Use of Military Force Some defended military action as a mean of assisting humanitarian Violence is ultimately self- defeating and filled with unintended negative consequences

  7. Centralization VsGrassroots Organization Centralization The development of strong peace movements leadership and central authority Grassroots Organization prefers local, grassroots organizing

  8. Single-Issue VsBroader Social Agendas Single issue War taxes or specific wars Broader social agendas Economic aspects of social justice, environmental concerns

  9. Practicality Vs Idealism Dilemmas between two • US Nuclear Freeze campaign • Green party in Germany

  10. Civil Disobedience • active refusal to obey laws, demands and commands of government. Supporerters Opponents it’s acceptable when “the government is engaging in ethically unacceptable behavior consequences of law breaking & the possibility that such acts may alienate the majority of citizenry

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