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      • #44 Ending War Is Achievable
      • #43 A Global Peace System
      • #42 Women Rising!!
      • #41 Good News on Peace vs. Tragedy in Paris
      • #40 About AFWW and Shift
      • #39 Hague Conference and "Shift"
      • #38 Shift-Chapters 1-4
      • #37 Women and Ending War
      • #36 Four Notable Events
      • #35 Peace Systems and Opting out of War
      • #34 New book Shift on Kindle
      • #33 War Is Over - If You Want It
      • #32 Three Books and a TEDx Video
      • #31 An Ending-War Plan, Drones, Belfast
      • #30 Two Calls for Action
      • #29 Dismantling the War Machine
      • #28 Biology and Ending War
      • #27 Drone Warfare
      • #26 Ending War IS Possible
      • #25 Warmongers, Women, People & Change
      • #23 Special Edition - The Mutilation of Wonder Woman
      • #22 Special Edition: Film Launch
      • #21 Shaping our Destiny - Paradigm Shift
      • #20 Women on the Frontlines
      • #19 Media Favorites: Peace Movements Worldwide
      • #18 Capstone Essay
      • #17 AFWW, Sarah Palin, Origin of War, Empathy
      • #16 Women and Girls
      • #15 Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
      • #14 - Twitter, Ardi and more!
      • #13 Economics, Ending War, Building Lasting Peace
      • #12 - Nuclear Disarmament
      • #11 - Nonviolence: Powerful and Necessary
      • #10 - Economics and Social Transformation
      • #9 - Proof That Humans Can Live Without War
      • #8 - Changing History: The Next Big Shift
      • #7 Global Women Leaders Flex Security Muscles
      • #6 Economic Change
      • #5 Report: World Peace Conference
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      • #3 Democracy in Action
      • #2 Seasons Greetings!
      • #1 A Newsletter for AFWW
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      • Fry - Beyond War
      • Hrdy - Mothers and Others
      • Myers - Why Women Should Rule
      • Zak - The Moral Molecule
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An Action Plan

A Proposed Plan of Action to Shape Human History

A Future Without War
Moving from a culture that accepts violence as a means to resolve conflicts, large and small, to a culture that embraces only nonviolent means of conflict resolution. Making such a move would constitute a massive paradigm shift in human history.

Dr. Judith Hand, Ph.D.
Founder: AFutureWithoutWar.org


Such a shift in how we resolve conflicts will not happen spontaneously.  There must be a stimulus to unify the world around nonviolence!

Ending war can be that stimulus. It can be an engine to drive such a paradigm shift.


War is the ultimate expression of the idea that conflicts can be resolved with violence. It is a "dominance" paradigm: a person or group uses physical force to achieve his, her, or their objectives. With respect to war, we've expressed this dominance-by-force paradigm form of conflict resolution for roughly 10,000  to 15,000 years.

Because war is arguably the greatest violence we do to each other, a campaign to put an end to war would be, by its very existence, a powerful statement that the global community no longer accepts the domination-by-violence paradigm.
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Moreover, efforts required to end war embrace such an extraordinarily broad array of human endeavors that a campaign to end war, more than any other single thing, will be capable of uniting the global community. In this way the campaign becomes an engine driving an actual global paradigm shift at the level of hearts and minds from violence to nonviolence. Finally, we need to both illustrate and demonstrate for our children our commitment to nonviolence. 

Download the full essay (11 pages).

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A Future Without War
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​And we will achieve it. 
AFWW is continually developed and maintained by Writer and Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Judith Hand.
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  • Home
  • Overview
    • Study Guide
    • The Single Most Important Idea
    • Mission Statement
    • War Is Not Inevitable keynote speech
    • Capstone Essay: "To Abolish War"
    • An Action Plan
    • The Nine Cornerstones
    • How Far We Have Already Come
    • The Secret Ingredient
    • The Vision Thing
    • How Long It Will Take
    • What You Can Do
    • The AFWW Logo Explained
    • Examples of War Expenses
    • Biological Differences
    • What Makes People Happy
  • Nine Cornerstones
    • Summary of the Nine Cornerstones
    • Embrace The Goal
    • Empower Women
    • Enlist Young Men
    • Ensure Essential Resources
    • Foster Connectedness
    • Promote Nonviolent Conflict Resolution
    • Provide Security and Order
    • Shift Our Economies
    • Spread Liberal Democracy
  • Videos
  • Books
    • A Future Without War: 2nd Edition
    • Shift: The Beginning of War, the Ending of War
    • War and Sex and Human Destiny
    • Women, Power, and the Biology of Peace
  • Blog
    • List of Blog Posts
  • More
    • Archived Blog
    • Map of Non-warring Cultures
    • Newsletters >
      • #44 Ending War Is Achievable
      • #43 A Global Peace System
      • #42 Women Rising!!
      • #41 Good News on Peace vs. Tragedy in Paris
      • #40 About AFWW and Shift
      • #39 Hague Conference and "Shift"
      • #38 Shift-Chapters 1-4
      • #37 Women and Ending War
      • #36 Four Notable Events
      • #35 Peace Systems and Opting out of War
      • #34 New book Shift on Kindle
      • #33 War Is Over - If You Want It
      • #32 Three Books and a TEDx Video
      • #31 An Ending-War Plan, Drones, Belfast
      • #30 Two Calls for Action
      • #29 Dismantling the War Machine
      • #28 Biology and Ending War
      • #27 Drone Warfare
      • #26 Ending War IS Possible
      • #25 Warmongers, Women, People & Change
      • #23 Special Edition - The Mutilation of Wonder Woman
      • #22 Special Edition: Film Launch
      • #21 Shaping our Destiny - Paradigm Shift
      • #20 Women on the Frontlines
      • #19 Media Favorites: Peace Movements Worldwide
      • #18 Capstone Essay
      • #17 AFWW, Sarah Palin, Origin of War, Empathy
      • #16 Women and Girls
      • #15 Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
      • #14 - Twitter, Ardi and more!
      • #13 Economics, Ending War, Building Lasting Peace
      • #12 - Nuclear Disarmament
      • #11 - Nonviolence: Powerful and Necessary
      • #10 - Economics and Social Transformation
      • #9 - Proof That Humans Can Live Without War
      • #8 - Changing History: The Next Big Shift
      • #7 Global Women Leaders Flex Security Muscles
      • #6 Economic Change
      • #5 Report: World Peace Conference
      • #4 AFWW Goes to a World Peace Conference
      • #3 Democracy in Action
      • #2 Seasons Greetings!
      • #1 A Newsletter for AFWW
  • About
    • About the Author
    • Movie Reviews >
      • Pray the Devil Back to Hell
      • A Force More Powerful
      • Iron Jawed Angels
      • Gandhi
      • Amazing Grace
      • Frontier Gandhi: Badshah Khan
    • Book Reviews >
      • Fry - Beyond War
      • Hrdy - Mothers and Others
      • Myers - Why Women Should Rule
      • Zak - The Moral Molecule
    • Speeches and Workshops
  • Related Projects
    • General & Miscellaneous
    • Empower Women
    • Enlist Young Men
    • Ensure Essential Resources
    • Foster Connectedness​
    • Promote Nonviolent Conflict Resolution
    • Provide Security and Order
    • Shift Our Economies
    • Spread Liberal Democracy
  • Contact