Pacifism

Dilip Chitre creates a stark impression of the isolation of old age in his poem ‘Father Returning Home’ by showing his fathers’ estrangement from society and his own family. Chitre conveys this isolation by using literary devices such as similes and repetition, and addressing themes such as modernity vs tradition. The poem begins when a father is waiting outside for a train which will take him home. We know this as it says ‘My father travels on the late evening train’. Already by labelling the…

didn’t see you in bible study today. The Sunday school teacher went on to explain last week’s concept of pacifism, a concept that you didn’t seem to understand to well. I know that you I am writing to you today to explain what the word pacifism means since it seemed as if you were confused as to what it means. Now, when the Sunday school teacher discussed pacifism last week, you thought that pacifism and passivism were one in the same and in reality, they have two completely different meanings.…

Christian pacifism goes beyond opposing war. It represents more than being philosophically opposed to violence; it focuses on peacekeeping. Christian pacifism is spiritually founded in the scripture and the life of Jesus Christ, and his teachings of brotherly love and nonviolent coexistence. Jesus' words; "If someone slaps your cheek, offer him another, if someone demand your coat, offer him your shirt also", reflect the ideology behind Christian pacifism. Today, however, Christian pacifism…

War is beautiful. War is necessary. We must fight because we are right, and the enemy is wrong. When raised in a nation that is free, these three statements will be echoed until it is time to be shipped off to battle. There is no argument or resistance, only a generation of young men that believe their right is not to be free, but to die in hopes that their sacrifice will bring freedom to those they love. “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen is a bitter contradiction about the common belief…

Are non-violent resistances more effective than violent ones? Violent methods of resistance may be the most powerful, but forceful methods are not as effective as non-violent strategies because a non-violent resistance achieves its objectives against the will of the opponent by grasping control of the situation through widespread non-cooperation and boldness. Governments can easily justify violent retaliations against armed protesters. Government violence against nonviolent movements is more…

This is the question that will be explored throughout this paper in regards to the applicability of the nonviolence paradigm to a Canadian setting and civil society initiatives. The nonviolence paradigm is based on “achieving without harm…things that are normally thought to be attainable through violence”. (Funk, 2015) This paradigm challenges the normality of achieving something with violence, by using non-violent measures. Much like world order this paradigm challenges power politics, with…

Imagine that you are having a completely normal night at home. You have just eaten dinner, and now you are sitting on the couch watching TV with your family. Then, out of nowhere, someone storms into your house waving a gun around and threatening to kill your family. What do you do? Do you grab a gun, or if you do not have one, do you storm the intruder and try to stop him from hurting your family? Or, do you just stand in front of him and risk getting you and the rest of your family killed?…

What If Collier was Wrong The Collier brothers say it themselves, “war is futile”, however, is that a professional thought, or just a theme that supports his title? In this essay one could find evidence that war shaped history not hindered it. As previously stated, the Collier brothers say themselves “war is worthless.” When, in reality, has shaped not only history, but society itself. War is a trivial thing, Most of the population would agree with the Colliers when they say, “war does bring…

This simulation inspired me that, the balance of power can not simply explain the cause of World War I. By using Waltz’s three levels of analysis, the individual acts and beliefs, the collision of interest between states, as well as the anarchic nature of the international system could explain the outbreak of WWI. On the individual level, important figures significantly affected the possibility of war and the process of history. For example, Garivalo Princie was a Serbian nationalist who…

One method is pacifism. Pacifism is the commitment to nonviolence and opposition to war (associated with Gandhi and King). It is related to deontological concerns by the focus on the morality of killing. Deontological pacifists will maintain that there is an absolute moral…