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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.
12 Μαρ 2024 · Pacifism as War Abolitionism provides an account of the war system that draws on contemporary sociology, history, and political philosophy. The core of its critique of that system is that war begets war, and hence war will not be ended—or even constrained—by finding more principled ways to fight war, as many imagine.
Pacifism’s contribution to this is practical, by placing the politics of nonviolence at the center of this task. Keywords pacifism – just war theory – war system Pacifism has always been a minority position, if not a marginal one.
“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.
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.
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.
Pacifism is the alternative to just war theory. In its strongest form, it is fundamentally opposed to war, unconditionally and absolutely. Because the pacifist position is undertheorised, a principal aim of this chapter is to review its main elements
