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Study Guide for the Website "A Future Without War" -- by Judith Hand
The Bottom Line: What should be the shared end-goal of a global movement to abolish war?
“A social paradigm does not change until a better paradigm emerges that can replace it. This principle also applies to a social change movement seeking to abolish war: the current toleration of the use of war to resolve conflicts needs to be replaced by an absolute commitment to using only nonviolent means to resolve conflicts, never violence.
Another principle of social change is that a social change movement has the most power when it operates not from a vision of what it is against, but by presenting a vision of what it is for. Therefore, A Future Without War believes that establishment of an enforceable global peace treaty—an agreement that can serve as the bedrock foundation for building a global peace system—should be the shared end-goal of all participants of a global peace movement.
In practice, that means that at least as much energy as the movement puts into protesting the war industry or forces that create poverty or environmental destruction and other war-fostering human activities should be put into activities directed to securing the needed enforceable global peace agreement.”
“A social paradigm does not change until a better paradigm emerges that can replace it. This principle also applies to a social change movement seeking to abolish war: the current toleration of the use of war to resolve conflicts needs to be replaced by an absolute commitment to using only nonviolent means to resolve conflicts, never violence.
Another principle of social change is that a social change movement has the most power when it operates not from a vision of what it is against, but by presenting a vision of what it is for. Therefore, A Future Without War believes that establishment of an enforceable global peace treaty—an agreement that can serve as the bedrock foundation for building a global peace system—should be the shared end-goal of all participants of a global peace movement.
In practice, that means that at least as much energy as the movement puts into protesting the war industry or forces that create poverty or environmental destruction and other war-fostering human activities should be put into activities directed to securing the needed enforceable global peace agreement.”
The materials presented in this website are the product of roughly twenty years of research and writing on the subject of war, the relationship of men and women to war, and the potential for humans on Earth to build and maintain a future without war.
The guide is provided to 1) facilitate individual learning and, 2) facilitate use by educators wishing to provide supplemental reading materials for their classes. The site was assembled over many years, arranged with no particular systematic plan; therefore the guide groups together related topics for visitors wishing to explore a given topic rather than search through the extensive site at random.
Presented is a list of subject categories, and beneath them links to titles of articles that contain information relevant to that subject. Material in some articles may overlap, having been written at different times with slightly different focus or purpose.
This website is dedicated to the proposition that our time in history is uniquely poised to abolish war. It is my hope that it will be useful to anyone with access to the Internet anywhere in the world as an educational tool for FREE.
The guide is provided to 1) facilitate individual learning and, 2) facilitate use by educators wishing to provide supplemental reading materials for their classes. The site was assembled over many years, arranged with no particular systematic plan; therefore the guide groups together related topics for visitors wishing to explore a given topic rather than search through the extensive site at random.
Presented is a list of subject categories, and beneath them links to titles of articles that contain information relevant to that subject. Material in some articles may overlap, having been written at different times with slightly different focus or purpose.
This website is dedicated to the proposition that our time in history is uniquely poised to abolish war. It is my hope that it will be useful to anyone with access to the Internet anywhere in the world as an educational tool for FREE.
Why an Ending-war Campaign is Now, in Our Time, Uniquely Poised to Succeed
War is Not Inevitable – Keynote Speech
Nonviolence Before It’s Time: Now It is Poised to Change History
How Far We Have Already Come
How Long It Will Take
Video – Ending War is Achievable: Five Reasons Why
Action Plans for an Ending-War Campaign
War is Not Inevitable – Keynote Speech – Includes an explanation for why our time is history is uniquely posed to end war; why ending war is a vehicle to usher in a major paradigm shift toward nonviolence; includes a comparison of Obstructive and Constructive Programs; essential characteristics of a successful movement.
Capstone Essay – To Abolish War – Includes a comparison of Obstructive and Constructive Programs/Approaches; levers and fulcrums for change; why male/female partnership is essential; importance of leadership.
Paradigm Shift and Shaping the Future – Includes a possible name for an ending-war movement (FACE – For All Children Everywhere); defines and explains the needed paradigm shift to permanently abolish war; describes the essential elements of a working paradigm shift campaign to end war.
An Action Plan to Shape Human History (downloadable PDF available) – Argues that ending war can be a stimulus to foster a paradigm shift from use of violence to only use of nonviolent means of conflict resolution; describes all steps required to put such a movement into motion; describes the tools to be used in the campaign.
Keys to Obtaining Success
The Single Most Important Idea
The Vision Thing
What Makes People Happy
Video - Ending War is Achievable: Five Reasons Why
AFWW Logo Explained
Capstone Essay – To Abolish War – has a section on leadership
Sex and Individuality, Sex and Leadership (chapter from the book War and Sex and Human Destiny)
What You Can Do
Elements that are Key to Maintaining the Peace
AFWW Logo Explained
The Nine Cornerstones
Thumbnail Summaries of the Nine Cornerstones
Embrace the Goal
Empower Women
Enlist Young Men
Ensure Essential Resources
Foster Connectedness
Promote Nonviolent Conflict Resolution
Shift Our Economies
Spread Liberal Democracy
Peace Systems and Enduring Peace – the end-goal is establishment of a global peace system.
What Makes People Happy
Nonviolence - What It Is, Successful Uses, and Practitioners
War is Not Inevitable – Keynote Speech
Nonviolence Before Its Time: Now Poised to Change History
Changing the Biological Chemistry of Nonviolent Peace Movements: Women on the Frontlines
Liberian Women Demand and Get Peace!
World Peace Map of Nonviolent and Nonwarring Cultures
Film Review – “A Force More Powerful”
Film Review – “Pray the Devil Back to Hell: A Timed Viewing Guide, Nonviolent Action by Liberian Women to Secure a Peace Treaty
Film Review – “Gandhi”
Film Review – “Amazing Grace”
Film Review – “The Frontier Gandhi – Badshah Khan”
Gender and War
Differences Between Men & Women With Respect to Physical Aggression and Social Stability
The Secret Ingredient: Pivotal Catalyst for Change and Long Term Stability
Capstone Essay – To Abolish War – includes an explanation for why male/female partnership is a necessary condition for success of a campaign to establish and maintain a war-free future.
Locked in the Embrace of Male Biology
Changing the Biological Chemistry of Nonviolent Peace Movements: Women on Front Lines
Video – “Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man?”
Video – “Ending War, Sexual Dimorphism, and Human Destiny”
Book - War and Sex and Human Destiny – full text available for FREE
Book – Women, Power, and the Biology of Peace – FREE download
Women and War, and Women as Promoters of the Common Good
Liberian Women Demand and Get Peace!
Women’s Global Security Summit – 2007
Sarah Palin and Why All Women Are Not Progressive
Women, Poverty, Economic Development – Half the Sky
Book – Women, Power, and the Biology of Peace – FREE download
Book – War and Sex and Human Destiny
Book - War and Sex and Human Destiny – full text available for FREE
Video – “One Billion Rising”
Video – “International Women’s Day – IPJ – 2013”
Film Review – “Iron Jawed Angels”
Human Nature and War
Origins of War and Human Destiny
Unveiling Ardi
Differences Between Men & Women With Respect to Physical Aggression and Social Stability
What Makes People Happy
Essential Human Goodness and War
Humans are Basically Good
Video – “Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man”
How Long Would it Take to Accomplish a Major Social Paradigm Shift Away From War
How Long It Will Take – The Demographic Transition is a Model
War is Not Inevitable – Keynote Speech
Key AFWW-related Concepts
“Paradigm Shift” - from domination by force to nonviolence.
Paradigm Shift and Shaping the Future
An Action Plan
“Sexual Dimorphism,” “Parental Investment” - and gender differences.
Differences Between Men & Women With Respect to Physical Aggression and Social Stability
“r-selection and k-selection,” “Demographic Transition,” - male/female reproductive strategies and population growth.
How Long It Will Take – The Demographic Transition is a Model
“Game Theory” - and nonviolent vs. violent forms of conflict resolution.
Promote Nonviolent Conflict Resolution
The Costs of War – War and Economics
Examples of War Expenses
Budgeting and War
Corporations are People? – If So, Democracy is Doomed
Capitalism: A Love Story – Thoughts on the Film
Books by Dr. Hand
A Future Without War, 2nd Edition
A Future Without War, 2nd Edition – full text for FREE
Shift: The Beginning of War, The Ending of War
War and Sex and Human Destiny
War and Sex and Human Destiny – full text for FREE
Women, Power, and the Biology of Peace- FREE download
Book Reviews
Beyond War – Douglas P. Fry
Mothers and Others – Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Why Women Should Rule the World – Dee Dee Myers
The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity – Paul J. Zak
Related Projects – Links to Over a Hundred Groups and Projects that Focus on Aspects of the Nine AFWW Cornerstones
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
War is Not Inevitable – Keynote Speech
Nonviolence Before It’s Time: Now It is Poised to Change History
How Far We Have Already Come
How Long It Will Take
Video – Ending War is Achievable: Five Reasons Why
Action Plans for an Ending-War Campaign
War is Not Inevitable – Keynote Speech – Includes an explanation for why our time is history is uniquely posed to end war; why ending war is a vehicle to usher in a major paradigm shift toward nonviolence; includes a comparison of Obstructive and Constructive Programs; essential characteristics of a successful movement.
Capstone Essay – To Abolish War – Includes a comparison of Obstructive and Constructive Programs/Approaches; levers and fulcrums for change; why male/female partnership is essential; importance of leadership.
Paradigm Shift and Shaping the Future – Includes a possible name for an ending-war movement (FACE – For All Children Everywhere); defines and explains the needed paradigm shift to permanently abolish war; describes the essential elements of a working paradigm shift campaign to end war.
An Action Plan to Shape Human History (downloadable PDF available) – Argues that ending war can be a stimulus to foster a paradigm shift from use of violence to only use of nonviolent means of conflict resolution; describes all steps required to put such a movement into motion; describes the tools to be used in the campaign.
Keys to Obtaining Success
The Single Most Important Idea
The Vision Thing
What Makes People Happy
Video - Ending War is Achievable: Five Reasons Why
AFWW Logo Explained
Capstone Essay – To Abolish War – has a section on leadership
Sex and Individuality, Sex and Leadership (chapter from the book War and Sex and Human Destiny)
What You Can Do
Elements that are Key to Maintaining the Peace
AFWW Logo Explained
The Nine Cornerstones
Thumbnail Summaries of the Nine Cornerstones
Embrace the Goal
Empower Women
Enlist Young Men
Ensure Essential Resources
Foster Connectedness
Promote Nonviolent Conflict Resolution
Shift Our Economies
Spread Liberal Democracy
Peace Systems and Enduring Peace – the end-goal is establishment of a global peace system.
What Makes People Happy
Nonviolence - What It Is, Successful Uses, and Practitioners
War is Not Inevitable – Keynote Speech
Nonviolence Before Its Time: Now Poised to Change History
Changing the Biological Chemistry of Nonviolent Peace Movements: Women on the Frontlines
Liberian Women Demand and Get Peace!
World Peace Map of Nonviolent and Nonwarring Cultures
Film Review – “A Force More Powerful”
Film Review – “Pray the Devil Back to Hell: A Timed Viewing Guide, Nonviolent Action by Liberian Women to Secure a Peace Treaty
Film Review – “Gandhi”
Film Review – “Amazing Grace”
Film Review – “The Frontier Gandhi – Badshah Khan”
Gender and War
Differences Between Men & Women With Respect to Physical Aggression and Social Stability
The Secret Ingredient: Pivotal Catalyst for Change and Long Term Stability
Capstone Essay – To Abolish War – includes an explanation for why male/female partnership is a necessary condition for success of a campaign to establish and maintain a war-free future.
Locked in the Embrace of Male Biology
Changing the Biological Chemistry of Nonviolent Peace Movements: Women on Front Lines
Video – “Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man?”
Video – “Ending War, Sexual Dimorphism, and Human Destiny”
Book - War and Sex and Human Destiny – full text available for FREE
Book – Women, Power, and the Biology of Peace – FREE download
Women and War, and Women as Promoters of the Common Good
Liberian Women Demand and Get Peace!
Women’s Global Security Summit – 2007
Sarah Palin and Why All Women Are Not Progressive
Women, Poverty, Economic Development – Half the Sky
Book – Women, Power, and the Biology of Peace – FREE download
Book – War and Sex and Human Destiny
Book - War and Sex and Human Destiny – full text available for FREE
Video – “One Billion Rising”
Video – “International Women’s Day – IPJ – 2013”
Film Review – “Iron Jawed Angels”
Human Nature and War
Origins of War and Human Destiny
Unveiling Ardi
Differences Between Men & Women With Respect to Physical Aggression and Social Stability
What Makes People Happy
Essential Human Goodness and War
Humans are Basically Good
Video – “Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man”
How Long Would it Take to Accomplish a Major Social Paradigm Shift Away From War
How Long It Will Take – The Demographic Transition is a Model
War is Not Inevitable – Keynote Speech
Key AFWW-related Concepts
“Paradigm Shift” - from domination by force to nonviolence.
Paradigm Shift and Shaping the Future
An Action Plan
“Sexual Dimorphism,” “Parental Investment” - and gender differences.
Differences Between Men & Women With Respect to Physical Aggression and Social Stability
“r-selection and k-selection,” “Demographic Transition,” - male/female reproductive strategies and population growth.
How Long It Will Take – The Demographic Transition is a Model
“Game Theory” - and nonviolent vs. violent forms of conflict resolution.
Promote Nonviolent Conflict Resolution
The Costs of War – War and Economics
Examples of War Expenses
Budgeting and War
Corporations are People? – If So, Democracy is Doomed
Capitalism: A Love Story – Thoughts on the Film
Books by Dr. Hand
A Future Without War, 2nd Edition
A Future Without War, 2nd Edition – full text for FREE
Shift: The Beginning of War, The Ending of War
War and Sex and Human Destiny
War and Sex and Human Destiny – full text for FREE
Women, Power, and the Biology of Peace- FREE download
Book Reviews
Beyond War – Douglas P. Fry
Mothers and Others – Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Why Women Should Rule the World – Dee Dee Myers
The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity – Paul J. Zak
Related Projects – Links to Over a Hundred Groups and Projects that Focus on Aspects of the Nine AFWW Cornerstones
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