Global Peace Index

This article written by Fred Fleitz, a senior vice president for a Washington, DC national security think tank, comments on President Obama 's policy decisions and their effect on the United States future in global security. Fleitz argues that these policies are in fact non-policies that do little to address the chaos that is taking place in Syria and Iraq. He views Obama 's actions as cowardly and passive and believes that they could lead to another tragedy on the same scale as 9/11. I…

There are many definitions for peace and violence. However, the definition is dependent on the context of the situation in which it is applied. So really, there are many definitions of peace and violence as they are applied. There are, however, different kinds of peace and different kinds of violence that can be applied to various situations. The two categories for peace are divided into Negative peace and Positive peace, while the two categories for violence are divided into Cultural violence…

Conflict in the International Arena through the three images lens Man, the State and War canalizes causes of conflicts in the international arena through the lenses of the three images. The three images are philosophical, psychological and theoretical approaches to understand the reasons of conflict and the eruption of wars in the international field. The first image tries to explain the reasons of war by focusing on the relevance of human nature or human-tendencies as the main instigator of…

The Totality and Infinity In Totality and Infinity, Levinas started his discussion of morality with its opposite. Levinas Stated: “Everyone will readily agree that it is the highest importance to know whether we are duped by morality. Does not lucidity, the minds opened upon the true, consist in catching sight of the permanent possibility of War” and also “War renders morality derisory” War is that which is opposite of morality and so, Levinas holds that one must understand war to know…

Beauty and terror are two words that can be associated with peace and war, security and fear, comfort and devastation, serenity and distribution. Peace is a necessary requirement among all nations because its based on a system of just and truth. War has always been a motivation among nations to seek authority and power, some see it as the mechanism of survival and a fullfilment to humans desire of violence, others see it as violent armed conflict between two political units that share…

approaches to peace education are ‘Education for Peace' and ‘Education for Peace'. Education for peace is the education inorder to create preconditions for the achievement of peace and education about peace involves the developmental and practice of instructions and processes that comprise a peaceful social order. Recent global events in the political, cultural and religious spheres have caused division, discrimination, and distrust among the masses, thereby unsetting the mantle of peace and…

Christians should consider that pacifism, which is the belief that violence cannot be justified under any circumstance, is interpretable from Christianity. While this is a strong stance, there are compelling arguments connecting faith and nonresistance. John Howard Yoder lays out the argument that violence is an offense directly against God that cannot be justified. Just War Theory is often raised as a sway for Christians to commit to nonviolence except in certain circumstances. Even if violence…

How can you find serenity in life? Searching for peace can be a difficult task when everything around you relates to violence. In Williams Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning”, Sartoris Snopes is constantly overwhelmed by fear, agony, and despair because of his father’s practices of violence not only against his family but also the law when burning the barns. Peace is essential for human development; it gives a sense of tranquility and seclusion from oppression. Throughout the story Sarty deals…

John Steinbeck was a member of two intelligence organizations that were the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The director asked Steinbeck to write a work of propaganda against the Nazi aggression in Europe. As a result, Steinbeck wrote The Moon is Down. This book argued the need for people to stand up against the Nazi invaders and to not surrender and appease them. Many people throughout Europe were able to read this book including people who receive smuggled copies of this…

has contributed greatly to this instability by not forcefully deterring actions threatening peace. Adversaries have become emboldened to pursue their interests unabetted because of the lack of will on the part of the American Government to do something about it. Although some think Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not going to adequately handle the world’s conflicts, he is definitely going to bring peace into the world by his appointment of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, his cooperation…