Sen, Amartya (editor) (2011) Peace and Democratic Society. University of Groningen, Cambridge. ISBN 9781906924409 (hardback), 9781906924416
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The widespread prevalence of terrorism and political violence in the contemporary world has led to many initiatives in recent years aimed at removing the scourge. Military ways for trying to secure peace have sometimes been rapidly deployed, with less informed justification in some cases than in others. And yet group violence through systematic instigation is not exclusively, nor primarily, a military challenge. It is fostered in our divisive world through capturing people’s minds and loyalties, and through exploiting the varying allegiance of those who are wholly or partly persuaded. Some are ‘inspired’ – and prodded – into joining various movements for promoting violent actions against targeted groups, but a much larger number of influenced people do not take part in any violent activities themselves. They can nevertheless hugely contribute to generating a political climate in which the most peaceful of people come to tolerate the most egregious acts of intolerance and brutality, on some hazily perceived grounds of ‘self-defence,’ or ‘just retaliation,’ against the wrong-doing ‘enemy.’ [....]
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | civil society, terrorism, violence, democracy, peace, Commonwealth Commission |
| ISBN: | 9781906924409 (hardback), 9781906924416 |
| Series Name: | 0 |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | University of Groningen |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge |
| Status: | Published |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | civil society, terrorism, violence, democracy, peace, Commonwealth Commission |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2020 10:42 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jun 2020 10:42 |
| URI: | https://ebooks.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/36 |
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