Cornell University Press
Toward a Theory of Peace
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About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Matthew Evangelista is President White Professor of History and Political Science at Cornell University. He is the author of several books, including Unarmed Forces, also from Cornell, and Gender, Nationalism, and War.
Neta C. Crawford is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Boston University.
Reviews
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.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Editors’ Note
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Editors’ Introduction: Randall Forsberg and the Path to Peace
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Abstract
xxxi - Part I. TOWARD A THEORY OF PEACE
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1. The Idea of a Theory of Peace
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2. Conditions for the Abolition of War
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3. The Roles of Innate Impulses and Learned Moral Beliefs in Individual and Group Violence
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4. Socially Sanctioned Group Violence: Features, Examples, and Sources
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5. Ritual Cannibalism: A Case Study of Socially Sanctioned Group Violence
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6. Sanctioned Violence, Morality, and Cultural Evolution
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Appendix: The Debate on the Existence of Cannibalism
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Notes
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Bibliography
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About the Author
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About the Editors
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Index
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