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Disarming Conflict: Why peace cannot be won on the battlefield
Available Now- Between the Lines, Toronto
- Zed Books (UK)
- Distributed in the United States by University of Chicago Press
Praise for Disarming Conflict
“Disarming Conflict made me want to stand up and cheer – finally, a book that confronts, articulately and impeccably, modern assumptions about the utility of war in resolving global disputes. Regehr’s book is a meticulously researched call to disarm and proves why he is Canada’s preeminent thinker on conflict issues, challenging readers and policy-makers to question the effectiveness of our rising militarism. I will be quoting liberally fromDisarming Conflict for years to come.”
Dr. Samantha Nutt
Author of Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid and founder of War Child Canada
“Ernie Regehr brings a wealth of knowledge and many years of thought to the issue of conflict and gives us a powerful counter to the deeply embedded assumption that there are seldom alternatives to war. By providing a huge number of examples, and often drawing on personal experience, Regehr shows both the extent of the problems and the disastrous consequences of reliance on military responses, and illustrates the many alternatives that are so often sidelined. This is an immensely useful book and a welcome antidote to the common obsession with war in the study of international security. There are other ways.”
Paul Rogers
Professor, Peace Studies, Bradford University
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Tag Archives: military spending
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