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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, perhaps in the form of an enforceable global peace treaty.
Another principle of social change is that a social change movement has most power when it operates, not from a vision of what it's against, but by presenting a vision of what it's 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 or 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, perhaps in the form of an enforceable global peace treaty.
Another principle of social change is that a social change movement has most power when it operates, not from a vision of what it's against, but by presenting a vision of what it's 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 or 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 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 article titles 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 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 article titles 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 Spech
Nonviolence Before Its Time: Now it is Poised to Change History
How Far We Have Already Come
How Long It Will Take
Ending War is Achievable: Five Reasons Why
Action Plans for an Ending-War Campaign
Project Enduring Peace: Women's Global Binding-Peace-Treaty Campaign - initiated in 2023.
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
Keys to Obtaining Success
The Single Most Important Idea
The Vision Thing
What Makes People Happy
Ending War is Achievable: Five Reasons Why
AFWW Logo Explained
Capstone Essay - To Abolish War - has a section on leadership
Relationship of Sex to Individuality, Relationship of Sex to Leadership (chapter from the book War and Sex and Human Destiny)
What You Can Do
Elements Key to Maintaining the Peace Over Time - To Create An Enduring Peace
AFWW Logo Explained
Shared Characteristics of Peace Systems
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 goal of establishing a global peace system.
What Makes People Happy
Nonviolence - What It Is, Successful Uses, and Practitioners
Chenoweth TED talk - Why Civil Resistence Works
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 Front Lines
Liberian Women Demand and Get Peace!
World Peace Map of Nonviolent and Non-warring Cultures
Film Review - "A Force More Powerful"
Film Review - "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" - A Timed Guide, Nonviolent Action by Liberian Women for a Peace Treaty
FIlm Review - "Gandhi"
Film Review - "Amazing Grace" - ending the British slave trade
Film Review - "The Frontier Gandhi - Badshah Khan"
Film Review - "Iron-Jawed Angels" - securing the vote for U.S. women
Gender and War
Differences Between Men & Women With Respect to Physical Aggresion 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
Locked in the Embrace of Male Biology: A Barrier to Positive Paradigm Shift
Changing the Biological Chemistry of Nonviolent Peace Movements: Women on the 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 by Kristoff and WuDunn
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
Human 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 egalitarian use of 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
"peace systems" - humans have created them in all kinds of societies, and they share important, relevant characteristics
Shared Charactertistics of Peace Systems
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 Michael Moore Film
Books by Dr. Hand
A Future Without War. Strategy on a Warfare Transition 2nd Edition
A Future Without War. Strategy on a Warfare Transition 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
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 Spech
Nonviolence Before Its Time: Now it is Poised to Change History
How Far We Have Already Come
How Long It Will Take
Ending War is Achievable: Five Reasons Why
Action Plans for an Ending-War Campaign
Project Enduring Peace: Women's Global Binding-Peace-Treaty Campaign - initiated in 2023.
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
Keys to Obtaining Success
The Single Most Important Idea
The Vision Thing
What Makes People Happy
Ending War is Achievable: Five Reasons Why
AFWW Logo Explained
Capstone Essay - To Abolish War - has a section on leadership
Relationship of Sex to Individuality, Relationship of Sex to Leadership (chapter from the book War and Sex and Human Destiny)
What You Can Do
Elements Key to Maintaining the Peace Over Time - To Create An Enduring Peace
AFWW Logo Explained
Shared Characteristics of Peace Systems
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 goal of establishing a global peace system.
What Makes People Happy
Nonviolence - What It Is, Successful Uses, and Practitioners
Chenoweth TED talk - Why Civil Resistence Works
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 Front Lines
Liberian Women Demand and Get Peace!
World Peace Map of Nonviolent and Non-warring Cultures
Film Review - "A Force More Powerful"
Film Review - "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" - A Timed Guide, Nonviolent Action by Liberian Women for a Peace Treaty
FIlm Review - "Gandhi"
Film Review - "Amazing Grace" - ending the British slave trade
Film Review - "The Frontier Gandhi - Badshah Khan"
Film Review - "Iron-Jawed Angels" - securing the vote for U.S. women
Gender and War
Differences Between Men & Women With Respect to Physical Aggresion 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
Locked in the Embrace of Male Biology: A Barrier to Positive Paradigm Shift
Changing the Biological Chemistry of Nonviolent Peace Movements: Women on the 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 by Kristoff and WuDunn
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
Human 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 egalitarian use of 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
"peace systems" - humans have created them in all kinds of societies, and they share important, relevant characteristics
Shared Charactertistics of Peace Systems
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 Michael Moore Film
Books by Dr. Hand
A Future Without War. Strategy on a Warfare Transition 2nd Edition
A Future Without War. Strategy on a Warfare Transition 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
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