Beyond Intractability: A Free Knowledge Base on More Constructive Approaches to Destructive Conflict

Milton Rinehart

The author states that our popular concept of peace has failed us. He claims that our old ways of thinking about peace are obsolete and that our peacemaking efforts, based upon them, have failed to assure peace and thus assure the avoidance of nuclear catastrophe. This paper tries to clarify our concepts of peace and to expand the range of our peace thinking by identifying additional and possibly more adequate concepts.

Many oppressors are also oppressed. Nonviolent confrontation is the only confrontation that allows us to respond realistically to such complexity. -- Jane Meyerding

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