Vijay Mehta

How Not to Go to War: Establishing Departments for Peace and Peace Centres Worldwide

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Produktbeschreibung

How to create a better world with less violence and war by institutionalising peace at many levels of society. Vijay Mehta shows how the establishment of Departments of Peace and Peace Centres worldwide will result in saving of trillions of US dollars which governments can utilise in jobs creation, healthcare, education and peace building.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Internationalist
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780265223
• ISBN-10: 1780265220
• Artikelnr.: 55908383

Autorenporträt

Vijay Mehta is an author and peace activist. He is Chair of Uniting for Peace and founding Trustee of Fortune Forum Charity. His notable books include 'The Economics of Killing' (2012) and 'Peace Beyond Borders' (New Internationalist, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART 1 - The World as it Might Be - A Peace-Industrial Complex
Chapter 1 - The Enemy Within
Chapter 2 - Departments for Peace, and Why Every Country Should Have One.
Chapter 3 - Making Peace Pay: Social Business Enterprise in the 21st
Century
Chapter 4 - Peace Centres and What They Do
Chapter 5 - GDP forPeace
Chapter 6 - The Warmongers'Economy
PART 2 - The World as it is - Ever More Dangerous
Chapter 7 - Bullets That Think
Chapter 8 - A Clock Ticking to World War Three
Chapter 9 - The War on Nature
Epilogue - MakingitHappen
Appendices The appendices include countries that have established
Departments for Peace: the Solomon Islands (2002),
Nepal (2007), Costa Rica (2009), South Sudan (2011), Ethiopia (2018); as
well as countries with initiatives who aspire to have Departments for
Peace: UK, US, Canada, Italy and others. It also includes UN Resolutions
and a report on Peace and Disarmament.