Australian attitudes to peace and war
Policy Online, 2013
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Two recent research publications, the International Handbook on Peace and Reconciliation, and the International Handbook on War, Torture and Terrorism, published by Springer, have provided extensive information on the important issue of Australian attitudes to peace and war. The above two publications follow on from an earlier four-volume work, State Violence and the Right to Peace, published by Praeger, which also examines attitudes to peace and war. All of the above works have been published as part of the GIPGAP research project, the first-ever global survey of the attitudes of ordinary citizens to issues of peace and war. GIPGAP, or Group on International Perspectives on Governmental Aggression and Peace, is an international consortium of scholars from a range of disciplines who have been working over the past five years on the project, under overall co-ordination from Boston University. The survey has extended to every continent on the globe, with Australia being one of those countries participating in the survey. What sets this research project apart from others is that there is no shortage of expert opinion on issues of peace and war – but this research project seeks to analyse the views of ordinary citizens, for better or worse. It is difficult to overstate the complexity of views on peace and war, and especially so when we look at Australia. Australians generally like to project a peace-like image, in that we like to think of ourselves as relaxed, friendly, egalitarian, and outgoing. Yet the historical reality is that Australians have been very ready to become involved in military conflicts, in instances where the conflicts have very little to do with us. Moreover, the underlying reality is that our country was founded upon conquest and settlement, and indeed much of our national identity (ANZAC) centres upon the remembrance of war. It is interesting from an Australian perspective to see how the research results have been organized. The earlier work, State Violence and the Right to Peace, was organized .
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Australian attitudes to peace and war
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Page, James |
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Veröffentlichung: | Policy Online, 2013 |
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