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Disarming Conflict
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Artikel-Nr:
9781783603572
Veröffentl:
2015
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
232
Autor:
Ernie Regehr
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Ernie Regehr, one of the world’s leading experts on peace and security, explains the approaches and initiatives that would be needed to achieve global disarmament.
In the past quarter century our world has hosted ninety-nine wars, twenty-nine of these are ongoing. The bill for maintaining huge stores of weapons and some 70 million people in uniform currently stands at $1.7 trillion a year. Of these wars, over 85 percent are not settled on the battlefield; they are fought to desperately hurting stalemates, eventually being turned over to diplomats and politicians who go in search of whatever face-saving outcomes may still be available. And yet, abandoning the conference table in favour of the battlefield is still justified when viewed as a last resort.
In this brave and discerning book, Ernie Regehr, OC, explains the approaches and initiatives needed to steer away from the futility of global military effort. Combining four decades of experience in conflict zones, advising and leading diplomacy efforts, building NGOs and contributing to the adoption of the Responsibility to Protect Act by the World Assembly, Regehr boldly shows that political stability will never be issued from the barrel of a gun.
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Fighting to Lose
- 1. A Quarter Century of Failed Warfare
- 2. Wars and Rumours of Wars: How Wars Start
- 3. How Civil Wars End
- 4. How International Wars End
- 5. The Limits of Force
- 6. Disarming Security: Preventing War
- 7. Disarming Conflict: A Treaty to Control the Arms Trade
- 8. Disarming the Bomb: Nuclear Disarmament
- 9. When Prevention Fails: Protecting the Vulnerable
- 10. Peace after the Sun Goes Down