This book is very interesting to read which I feel opens the mind, and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to understand peace. It also demonstrates the big question of how world peace can be achieved which does need more focus.

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World Peace And How We Can Achieve It Hardcover – 23 September 2019
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For as long as there has been war, there have been demands for its elimination. The quest for world peace has excited and eluded political leaders, philosophers, religious elders, activists, and artists for millennia. With war on the rise once again, we rarely reflect on what world peace might look like; much less on how it might be achieved.World Peace aims to change all that and show that world peace is possible. Because the motives, rationales, and impulses that give rise to war - the quest for survival, enrichment, solidarity, and glory - are now better satisfied through peaceful means, war is an increasingly anachronistic practice, more likely to impoverish and harm us humans than satisfy and protect us. This book shows that we already have many of the institutions and practices needed to make peace possible and sets out an agenda for building world peace. In the immediate term, it shows how steps to strengthen compliance with international law, improve collective action such as international peacekeeping and peacebuilding, better regulate the flow of arms, and hold individuals legally accountable for acts of aggression or atrocity crimes can make our world more peaceful. It also shows how in the long term, building strong and legitimate states that protect the rights and secure the livelihoods of their people, gender equal societies, and protecting the right of individuals to opt-out of wars has the potential to establish and sustain world peace. But it will only happen, if individuals organize to make it happen.The eBook offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: Find the eBook on VitalSource.
- ISBN-100198833520
- ISBN-13978-0198833529
- PublisherOxford University Press UK
- Publication date23 September 2019
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions23.62 x 3.05 x 15.75 cm
- Print length288 pages
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"Optimistic without being starry-eyed, Bellamy believes that peace is a possibility but not "imminent or likely," particularly as international tensions have risen and reasons for war, including resource scarcity, have become more pronounced ... A sensible [...] case for pursuing politics by means other than war." -- Kirkus Review"[A] thoughtful account." -- G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs"Alex Bellamy [...] makes the best-sustained argument for world peace since Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace (1795)." -- Hugh Miall, The Times Higher Education Supplement"There is an energy in this book's pragmatism as it seeks to restore world peace to a place of political and philosophical prominence. Those who long to reignite conversations about world peace will find this book a welcome addition." -- Colin McCullough, Ryerson University, International Journal"A clear, pragmatic exploration of war and peace and what motivates or prevents them. A treasury of practical suggestions for strengthening the motivations for peace (political, cognitive, and emotional) and for enabling the existing institutions, and in particular the UN, to work more effectively. A well-informed, readable invitation to everyone to play our part in building peace." -- Rev. Dr. Liz Carmichael, St. John's College, Oxford"There is a lot to admire about Professor Bellamy, which is what makes his new book the proverbial 'must read' for anyone with even a passing interest in the theory and more importantly the possible practice of world peace ... it is not possible to do justice to the sophistication and persuasiveness of the arguments Bellamy deploys in a short review ... this is a very significant contribution to what is generally an impoverished, deeply depressing and all-too-predictable discussion of security issues. It really ought to be read by the policymaking community in [Australia] and elsewhere ... Bellamy has produced a brave and brilliant meditation on the most important issue facing the world. That's worth at least an hour or two of anyone's time, I would have thought." -- Mark Beeson, The Strategist"An inspiration for everyone concerned with the practices of war and peace." -- Benjamin Duerr, Global Policy"However utopian the idea of world peace seems, the effort to achieve it must assuredly be one of humanity's noblest endeavours. Alex Bellamy has done a great service in curating debate and suggestions to this end, and deserves our applause." -- Professor A. C. Grayling CBE"The notion that peace is more than the absence of war has become axiomatic. But how do we build a world without war, atrocities and identity-based conflict? This insightful and incisive book by Alex Bellamy is a timely reminder that 'human nature' is a contested concept, that movements for peace and justice are as ancient and enduring as our more destructive martial impulses, and that a better and more peaceful world is possible." -- Simon Adams, Executive Director, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect"Mr. Bellamy's new book --like his life's work-- champions the essential and attainable seachange required of our world for a future where all humans are valued equally, where conflict is preventable, and peace is more than our shared goal, it is our default." -- Lieutenant-General The Honourable Roméo Dallaire, humanitarian, author, and retired senator and general"In his quest for a better and safer world, Alex Bellamy, one of the leading authors on the prevention of mass atrocities, in this book turns to world peace (and how to achieve it). He bravely sails through the history of ideas and the actual history to identify what works best based on empirical evidence. It is equally intellectually exciting to follow his journey and to explore its outcome: short, clear and actionable Articles for world peace. This is a Herculean effort and a great book to read. It is both timely and challenging: confronted with the increase of conflicts during the last decade, we desperately need an improved approach to the world peace. But can the proposals set out here work? The real test will be a practical one: let us hope that not only academics, but also policy makers give this book a close look and test its Articles of peace in practice!" -- Ivan Simonovic, Permanent Representative of Croatia to the United Nations"Heroically aspirational and wildly ambitious as Alex Bellamy's book may appear at first sight, it is full of measured and thoughtful analysis of the causes of both war and peace, and timely prescriptions for policymakers as to what they should - and can - do to minimize the risk of future catastrophic conflict." -- Gareth Evans, former Foreign Minister of Australia and President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group
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Alex Bellamy investigates world peace: what it is, whether it might be achieved, and how.
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Alex J. Bellamy is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, at The University of Queensland, Australia. He is also Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute in New York and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Since 2012 he has served as a consultant for the United Nations Office for Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect. For some of his work, he has been awarded a United Nations Association award for 'outstanding service' to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. In 2014-2015 and 2017-2018 he was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. He was the winner of the Ethics Section of the International Studies Association Prize 2013 for his book Massacres and Morality: Mass Atrocities in an Age of Civilian Immunity.
About the Author
Alex J. Bellamy is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, at The University of Queensland, Australia. He is also Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute in New York and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Since 2012 he has served as a consultant for the United Nations Office for Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect. For some of his work, he has been awarded a United Nations Association award for 'outstanding service' to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. In 2014-2015 and 2017-2018 he was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. He was the winner of the Ethics Section of the International Studies Association Prize 2013 for his book Massacres and Morality: Mass Atrocities in an Age of Civilian Immunity.
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- Publisher : Oxford University Press UK
- Publication date : 23 September 2019
- Language : English
- Print length : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0198833520
- ISBN-13 : 978-0198833529
- Item weight : 1.05 kg
- Dimensions : 23.62 x 3.05 x 15.75 cm
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- 137 in International Relations Textbooks
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- @1JazzSinghReviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 November 2019
4.0 out of 5 stars Opens the Mind to World Peace
- ArtichokesForAllReviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 November 2019
3.0 out of 5 stars A future utopia?
I was genuinely interested when setting out to read this book as to what solutions might be suggested that can lead to world peace, but was somewhat bemused by the end of the book. The author argues that the organisations and methodologies are to a large extent already present, but unfortunately there are some flies in the ointment, including conflicting religious and ideological views, the fact that an increasingly large population is competing for a finite amount of natural resources and, the biggest problem of all, good old human nature.
Sadly the book doesn't really address how these issues may be tackled, other than to theorise, the problem being that many of these things have been tried before but haven't been adopted on a global scale, so it's hard to see why or how that could change going forward. The idea of a future utopia where we all live in peace and harmony seems as far away as ever.
- Colin F.Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 November 2019
2.0 out of 5 stars Some very strange ideas in this book
Really strange ideas in this book. Whilst I read it I wish I had not as wasted a lot of time.
- AmazonCustomerReviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 March 2020
3.0 out of 5 stars World peace and how we can achieve it
Well researched, well written and practical in that it offers advice you can reasonably and practicably follow and it should be of some genuine help. Definitely worth a read.