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Communicating Peace and Social Justice Through Families Worldwide |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Norge W. Jerome |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 3,105 Words, 21,588 Characters |
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Ruth Sivard begins the 1996 edition of her renowned World Military and Social Expenditures Report, by proclaiming that the twentieth century already stands out as "the most productive and destructive century on record." She continues: "No other [century] comes close to it in terms of social progress in the education, health, and wealth it has provided for the population. Yet it is also evident that no other century on record equals the twentieth in uncivilized civil violence, in the number of confiicts waged, the hordes of refugees created, the millions of people killed in wars, and the vast expenditures in 'defense.' There have been six times as many deaths in the twentieth century as in the nineteenth!"1
The above scenario paints a troubling picture of the "defense" expenditures and c...
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....L. op. cit., p17
24. Sivard, R.L. op. cit.
25. Tehranian, M. 1992. "Restructuring for peace: A global perspective." In K. and M. Tehranian (Eds) Restructuring for World Peace. Ch. 1. Cheskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc., pp.1-22.
26. Frederick, H.H. op. cit., p273
27. Frederick, H.H., op. cit., p273
28. Frederick, H.H., op. cit., p272
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