Beyond Intractability: A Free Knowledge Base on More Constructive Approaches to Destructive Conflict
Introduction:
Carolyn Stephenson, a peace researcher at the University of Hawai'i, describes her use of Elise Boulding's envisioning workshops with women on Cyprus.
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World Without Weapons
Carolyn Stephenson
Professor of Population Studies, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai'i
One of the things I did in working with the women's groups — and this was the only group I was able to actually get together the
whole time I was there — was to work with them on envisioning their future. One of
the things I've done is work on workshops for envisioning the future of a world
without weapons. That work follows the work that Elise Boulding did with
envisioning the future and the world without weapons. I transformed that back to
envisioning the future of this group, which also meant envisioning the future of
this group in whatever they saw as Cyprus ten years, 20 years down the road.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military
defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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