PEACEST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Windows Management Instrumentation, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, World Health Organization
6 Nov 2015
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Pre-modern: early ideas about peace from religious or secular codes. Pre-modern to modern: questioning the need for war (realists vs. just war theorists vs. pacifists) 1880s: first peace organizations, first international peace conferences, first movements , Search for order stability in an international system, hindered by ww1. Interwar years (1919-1939): league of nations, rise in antimilitarism, broadening peace to include social reform, hindered by ww2. Post-wwii era (1945+): united nations, growth in humanitarian and human rights law, Decolonization, anti-nuclear, peace activism, true internationalism, growth in peace activity. Europe had exported its institutions/values around the globe for its own interests (imperialism) The major european states continued to compete for power (militarism) There were very few effective international institutions to limit the power of states. Despite growing (but faint) pressure from peace activists, the idea of just war remained dominant. Outbreak of second world war a huge disappointment. Continued to oppose the war, and especially conscription.
