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Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence 1 (2023) 65–75 Why Pacifism Now? Cheyney Ryan Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK cheyney.ryan@bsg.ox.ac.uk Abstract Pacifism has always been a marginal position, but only in the 20th century did it become stigmatized – i.e. dismissed and ridiculed as outside the ...
“In an age of perpetual conflict, Cheyney Ryan delivers a courageous and deeply reasoned account of how war can be abolished. Pacifism as War Abolitionism , in contrast to the Just War tradition, focuses on non-violent means for ending the war system that enables endless war.
Cheyney Ryan is a senior research fellow at Oxford University's Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict and the founder of the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights . He is a leading scholar in peace and conflict studies, with a focus on nonviolence and political activism.
14 Μαρ 2019 · The first part articulates a contemporary ‘ethos of pacifism’ and develops a coherent proposition as to what pacifism could—and maybe should—mean today. Cheyney Ryan defends the continuing viability of a pacifist stance in response to the continuing existence and operation of (what he dubs) the war system.
Pacifists oppose war. But what about personal self-defense and other cases of justified violence—including just war? Cheyney Ryan will discuss the ethics o...
12 Μαρ 2024 · Pacifism as War Abolitionism draws on contemporary sociology, history, and political philosophy to provide an account of the ‘war system’. At the core of the book is the point that war begets war, and hence war will not be ended—or even constrained—by finding more principled ways to fight war.
Cheyney Ryan characterizes anti-war pacifism as a position that is fundamentally opposed to war. He distinguishes two types of pacifism: political and personal. As Ryan points out, these types overlap in their opposition to war, yet differ in their logic - in their reasons for being opposed to war.
