The new peace politics
There's a future for peace says John Lampen
From Pacification to Peacebuilding by Diana Francis. Pluto Press. ISBN 978 0 7453 3026 6. £13.99.
I received this book for review together with Paul Lacey’s Swarthmore Lecture The unequal world we inhabit. Paul argued that Friends have made nonviolence a shibboleth; if we take seriously the ‘responsibility to protect’ people threatened by violence, we must accept the principle of using force sometimes. Diana Francis challenges this reasoning with arguments rooted in moral sensitivity and wide peaceworking experience.
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