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Negative peace refers to the absence of direct, or "hot" violence, which refers to acts that impose immediate harm on a given subject or group. In this sense, negative peacebuilding (aimed at negative peace) intentionally focuses on addressing the direct factors driving harmful conflict. When applying the term "peacebuilding" to this work ...
The first movement in the United States was the New York Peace Society, founded in 1815 by theologian David Low Dodge, followed by the Massachusetts Peace Society. The groups merged into the American Peace Society , which held weekly meetings and produced literature that was spread as far as Gibraltar and Malta describing the horrors of war and ...
After stating that "the creation of the United Nations system itself, based upon universally shared values and goals, has been a major act towards transformation from a culture of war and violence to a culture of peace and non-violence", the UN General Assembly, in its resolution 52/13 of 20 November 1997, requested UNESCO to submit to its next session a draft declaration and programme of ...
The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, a nonprofit that helps the estimated 30,000 prisoners released in Florida every year to return to society, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Not named is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who championed the law. "The media, they try to say that this is, quote, banning books, but what you have in a school, you have to make judgements about ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) Schneider, Gerald, and Nils Petter Gleditsch. "The capitalist peace: The origins and prospects of a liberal idea." International Interactions 36.2 (2010): 107-114. online; Shea, Patrick E. "Money Talks: Finance, War, and Great Power Politics in the Nineteenth Century."
Mary Shapard (c. 1882–1950s) – American author and peace activist who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize; she was reportedly the first American to advocate for the formation of a "league of nations" during World War I and was also reportedly the source of the original text used by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to draft his Covenant of ...
Following Spain's secession of Florida to the United States in 1819, the first permanent colonization of Key West began with American possession in 1821. [6] Legal claim of the island occurred with the purchase by businessman, John W. Simonton, in 1822, in which federal property was asserted only three months later with the arrival of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Mathew C. Perry.