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    that a perpetual peace is possible. In this essay I will discuss whether war is an inevitable part of global politics, and whether or not perpetual peace is possible, with reference to the work of Immanuel Kant. The body of my essay will consist of four main sections. What is meant by war and peace, in the global political perspective, Immanuel Kant’s position on the questions, and other theories and ideologies that would seek to

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    Morality Of War And Peace

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    Kirsten Young ID#: 817086784 Phil 340 Morality of War and Peace Exam #1 For Aquinas, there are three conditions for Just War. The first is that the war must be declared by authority of a head of state or a proper authority. The requirement for a war to be declared comes from the Roman law. There is no specific time limit between hostile activities and the declaration, but the act of declaring war does invite the second party to the pending hostilities for the opportunity to offer redress in lieu

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    What is peace? To some it is freedom of the disturbance and to others it is the presence of tranquility. To those that study the field of conflict resolution, peace is a concept that can be viewed as either negative or positive. Negative peace is the absence of war while positive peace is the integration of human society (Galtung). Though positive peace is the ideal standard that most would like to hold the world to, it is negative peace that is most present in society. Negative peace, though having

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    1984 War Is Peace Essay

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    War is peace in 1984 means, in one statement, that although Oceania is constantly at war, the people are behaving as though they are at peace. By always being at war, the public will be willing to sacrifice luxuries and give more willingly to the party and the community. Even calling it “war” doesn’t means as it does to us, the only part of the “war” the party needs is the war terror and frenzy from the people and the willingness to sacrifice things for the party. (Orwell, 199) When countries

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    Democratic Peace is a political theory developed by Immanuel Kant in 1795. Kant discussed democratic peace in his book, Perpetual Peace. The idea stated that democracies don’t fight other democracies. Democracies would not go to war, unless in self-defense, and to counter that necessity, Kant believed that if all nations became republics wars would cease to exist. Now, this belief rings with a tinge of idealism, however Kant’s arguments did hold validity. (Kant, I. 1795) With countries becoming democracies

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    Review: Making and Keeping Peace Suzanne Werner and Amy Yuen Introduction The article written by Werner and Yuen examines the durability of peace after interstate conflicts. Criticizing the reliance of the past literature only on the strength of peace agreements, they suggest two other key variables affecting peace durability: whether the ceasefire followed a consistent pattern of battle outcomes; and whether the war was “interrupted” by third-party pressure, resulting in a ceasefire. The primary

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    also helped to spread the need for global peace”. The urge for peace increased so much that the strategy of winning a war at all cost switched to the strategy where preventing a war became more important. Because peace is such an essential factor in global society, adjectives are used to make the definition more detailed. Positive and negative peace were a result from these adjustments. (Umoh & Udoh, 2011) The question I’m going to answer is whether peace is merely the absence of war. In my opinion

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    contribute to the evolution of an individual’s inner peace as they not only promise a state of peaceful being, but also a set of guidelines on how one must live in order to attain the state of inner peace. Peace can be broadly defined as ‘a state or condition conducive to, proceeding from or characterised from tranquillity”(****). It is a state of being that many individuals and groups over the course of history have tried to achieve, as the desire for peace is clearly something that is embedded into human

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    “True peace is not merely the absence of tension…” this means that to reach peace here in America, it’s gonna take more than ignoring the problem and pretending but for many Americans, that is enough. Racial tensions seem just a strong as the were 50 years ago and Systemic racism is still a huge problem. Attaining true peace may be a little far fetched but it is still tangible. In my opinion, i think everyone just needs to look in the mirror and see that we are all basically the same even though

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    The exact phrase “maintenance of international peace and security” is used eight times in the United Nations Charter, but now almost seventy years after the founding of the organization the international organization’s competence in pursuit of this lofty goal is still subject to debate. The charter of the United Nations gives the Security Council the sole power determine the existence of a threat to world peace and prescribe course of action needed to be taken against it. The five permanent members

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