A Future Without War: Strategy of a Warfare Transition, 2nd Ed. |
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A Book That Explores The Path to Abolishing War
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Nine Cornerstones of a Campaign to End War
A Future Without War is composed of updated excerpts from this website's essays plus additional related essays by Dr. Hand. At least nine areas of concern can roughly embrace the many factors that would have to be fixed, attended to, or undertaken, now and going into the future, in order to build and maintain an enduring warless global community. The book describes these nine cornerstones in detail, giving examples, and listing organizations already at work on each of them. In addition it addresses such issues as how long it might take to end war, the relationship of human happiness to ending war, and the biological reasons why men and women respond differently to resorting to war to resolve conflicts. The text, in full, is available for FREE on Dr. Hand's personal website. |
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The cornerstones were listed in alphabetical order to make it easier to remember all nine. In the AFWW Logo, however, they were presented in a circle because they must be attacked/attended to simultaneously; their issues are complexly intertwined, one of the reasons why leaders from all nine would need to participate in coordinating any campaign to end war.
We’ve made war for millennia. It is deeply embedded, financially and culturally, in our dominant societies. While abolishing war is within human capabilities—we are an enormously adaptive species—an ending-war campaign will require enormous will and skill from many different areas of contemporary human society that these cornerstones embrace. A metaphor that seems to fit the level of difficulty are projects that are already underway, putting permanent colonies on the Moon and/or Mars. Those efforts—like ending war, once not even imaginable—will require that thousands of people sharing that same goal bring many hundreds of different skills to the project, plus leadership that provides oversight to keep the project focused and on track. Very much like that, with appropriate leadership ending war is possible and is within our capabilities if we want to end it badly enough. No one should think it will be easy; if achieved, however, it will unquestionably be one of our species’ greatest accomplishments.
We’ve made war for millennia. It is deeply embedded, financially and culturally, in our dominant societies. While abolishing war is within human capabilities—we are an enormously adaptive species—an ending-war campaign will require enormous will and skill from many different areas of contemporary human society that these cornerstones embrace. A metaphor that seems to fit the level of difficulty are projects that are already underway, putting permanent colonies on the Moon and/or Mars. Those efforts—like ending war, once not even imaginable—will require that thousands of people sharing that same goal bring many hundreds of different skills to the project, plus leadership that provides oversight to keep the project focused and on track. Very much like that, with appropriate leadership ending war is possible and is within our capabilities if we want to end it badly enough. No one should think it will be easy; if achieved, however, it will unquestionably be one of our species’ greatest accomplishments.
