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"Winslow Myers has not only written an important story about the causes and consequences of war, but also provides a comprehensive roadmap for the journey to a world of which humanity has long dreamed, a world beyond war."
Richard Rathbun |
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"A winsome manifesto, at once lyrical and hard-edged, Beyond War evoked the new vista of 21st century possibilities that only now seem imaginable. . .a sense of shared values, collective labor, and good will, that cuts through argument, disables stereotypes, and outlives fear."
Bruce Lawrence |
ORBIS BOOKS
Maryknoll, New York
April 2009
180 pages
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Contents Foreword, by Brian Swimme
Introduction Part One: War Is Obsolete
1. War Doesn’t Work
2. War Will Be Fatal Unless We Change
3. The Root Cause of War Part Two: We Are One on This Planet
4. An Open Mind
5. Interdependence Part Three: The Means Are the Ends in the Making
6. Living Beyond War
7. Far Better Than War Part Four: The Challenge of Change
8. The Process of Change 9. Decision
10. The Power of Dialogue 11. Hope
Appendixes Acknowledgments |
"The abolition of war...is no longer an ethical question
to be pondered solely by learned philosophers and ecclesiastics, but a hard-core one for the decision of the masses whose survival is the issue." —Gen. Douglas MacArthur, 1961 "Man will put an end to war, or war will put an end to man." —John F. Kennedy, 1961 "War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong: and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses." ——Thomas Jefferson "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." —Albert Einstein "Preventing nuclear war means preventing all war." —Admiral Eugene Carroll, Jr. "Too many people believe you have to be either for or against the Iranian people. Let’s get serious. Eighty million people live there, and everyone’s an individual. The idea that they’re only one way or another is nonsense." —Admiral William Fallon former head of the U.S. Central Command in charge of forces in Iraq and Afghanistan "The conscious choice to take responsibility for the continuation of human life is further complicated by the fact that we are able to respond to it only before it happens. Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take responsibility now." —Jonathan Schell "A human being is part of the whole, called by us the universe. A part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures." —Albert Einstein "Once a photograph of the whole earth from space becomes available a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose." —Fred Hoyle, astronomer, 1948 "Always remember you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." —Margaret Mead
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