We Can End War"There's something more powerful than all the armies in the world and that's an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
What we need is a bold, unifying vision. Victor Hugo's famous quote stresses the great power of ideas over armies. This website is dedicated to one such idea whose time has come: We can, within two generations from the time we officially resolve to do it, create a future in which was is not only unacceptable, it's abhorrent and obsolete. |
Is This Only a Utopian Dream?
On this website you’ll find essays, a blog, book and movie reviews, links, and much more. Nine cornerstone essays (nav bar "Nine Cornerstones") describe efforts unified by the goal of ending war. Other articles and essays (nav bar "Overview") offer key insights into topics from the biology of war and sex differences to the role of women to how long it would take to end war. "An Action Plan" and the capstone essay "To Abolish War," combined with the nine cornerstones, describe a strategy for a nonviolent warfare transition to a more egalitarian, just, ecologically sustainable and peaceful future. This site offers a vision of hope for a future in which negotiation, mediation, and compromise—nonviolent means of resolving conflicts—will be the tools we choose. Learn about the Nine Cornerstones |
"SHIFT: The Beginning of War, The Ending of War"
This is a book that takes belief in the inevitability of war apart.
Is making war inevitable? Why do we make war?
Have we always made war?
If we haven’t, when and why did we start?
Shift explores why our time in history is poised to put an enduring end to a brutal cultural phenomenon. It presents a strategy for how we can accomplish a Great Cultural Transformation.
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"I hold deep admiration for the great pioneering work of Dr. Judith Hand for a world without war which is possible when people believe passionately and work for it. Shift explains “Why” and How”.
- Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
Video: "Ending War, Sexual Dimorphism and Human Destiny"
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In this video, Evolutionary Biologist and Peace Ethologist Dr. Judith Hand provides a well-researched, comprehensively documented outline for how we can achieve what no people before us could: a future without war. In it she presents a cutting-edge perspective on the human desire to build a "better" future, one that is more just, nurturing, and without the destruction and waste of war. The supporting rationale is presented, from a biological and anthropological perspective, for two necessary changes the global community must make to make the wish a reality: the need to establish a global peace system and to embrace parity governance.
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Video: "Ending War is Achievable. Five Reasons Why"
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This presentation offers a compelling explanation for how humanity can end the cycle or war. It does this by attacking head on the five main reasons for skepticism by 1) demonstrating that war is NOT "in our genes" and hence inescapable; it is a product of culture, 2) listing six major cultural changes that began roughly 700 years ago that make this time in history uniquely poised to end war, 3) pointing out that we recently have uncovered the conditions necessary for setting up enduring peace systems, which gives us now the knowledge needed to set up a global peace system, 4) countering with specific examples the debilitating notion that ending war would take so long activists could not remain motivated to do it, and 5) laying out over two dozen pivotal trends in global behavior and attitudes that are already moving us toward a global peace. "Ending War" is also published and available as an essay in text format on the AFWW blog at afww.wordpress.com.
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Take Action
1. Join and support an organization that is doing Constructive or Obstructive work to shape a better future.
For examples, see our Related Projects.
2. Contact decision makers politicians, thought leaders, and heads of NGOs to tell them you are convinced we could shape a less violent future, but we'll need leaders like them to make it happen.
3. Tell Everyone. Our film should convince you that we can create a future without war.
Tell people—friends and acquaintances—"we can end war, if we decide to do it."
For examples, see our Related Projects.
2. Contact decision makers politicians, thought leaders, and heads of NGOs to tell them you are convinced we could shape a less violent future, but we'll need leaders like them to make it happen.
3. Tell Everyone. Our film should convince you that we can create a future without war.
Tell people—friends and acquaintances—"we can end war, if we decide to do it."
"Judith Hand marshals knowledge and insight from biological, cultural, and political sciences to argue persuasively that now is the time in human development to extinguish the fires of war. She demonstrates that such a mammoth shift of human spirit and politics is possible, in fact crucial to human survival…she invites us to take part in this historical psychological, social, and institutional shift toward resolving differences through law with justice instead of bullets and bombs."- Douglas P. Fry, Ph.D., Director of Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research - Åbo Akademi, University in Vasa, Finland. Author of Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace
"Within minutes, Judith grabs the imagination and flings it to a different place and time." "Super ideas and a fascinating talk!" - Jeffrey T. Wilson, Esq., Program Chairman of the Poway Kiwanis, Poway, CA