Sentences with phrase «peace movement»

Nonetheless, a study of the history of peace movements challenges one's ability to be optimistic.

Peace movements fail because they fail to bridge class and ideological divisions.

She has been active in the women's and peace movements throughout her life.

Local pastors, where enabling leadership is concerned, may be at a better and more advantageous position to build a more effective peace movement than any other group in the world.

The fact that peace movements persist despite their failures is a tribute to the capacity of peace activists to sustain hope.

All are cause and effect of the minority status of peace movements.

Peace movements fail because they are not seen as reflecting the basic values of a society.

Just as peace movements need both optimism and pessimism to thrive, it is inevitable that in their appeals fear will be mixed with hope.

The argument has been made that, just as the nuclear age has transformed the ways in which weapons can be used in pursuit of national interests, so it has altered the prospects for peace movements.

The American peace movement of the 1930s benefited from a retrospective distaste for the Great War of 1914 - 1918.

Burrell teaches theology at Notre Dame and Landau is director of Oz V'Shalom - Netivot Shalom, a religious peace movement in Israel.

He became a pacifist and was active in the Christian peace movement and in opposition to nuclear weapons.

At the National Cathedral (Episcopal) in Washington, some old lions of peace movements past gathered to protest the «Contract with America» and to support the United Nations.

Peace movements thrive, an English writer has observed, when there is both optimism and pessimism: optimism, because there must be hope that shooting can be averted, that steps can be taken toward a more peaceful world; pessimism, because there must be clouds of war to spur interest in peace issues, to move us out of...

While these strategies and genres have for sure been used in traditional media outlets, they have also been part of a major paradigm shift within peace movement campaigns towards online social media based campaigns for peace.

An American, post-war, figurative painter, Golub was heavily involved in the anti-Vietnam war peace movement.

This situation describes the pre-1914 peace movement in the United States.

Out of this came a genuine peace movement.

Groups that reflect a concern with ultimate values include peace movements (specifically the growing resistance in Europe and America to nuclear armaments), ecology organizations (concerned with the preservation of nature), utopian communes (seeking to realize perfect community), psychological self - realization groups (seeking new levels of awareness and self - actualization), and revolutionary and terrorist organizations (whose members are willing to die for a political ideal).

Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society14 was a very sophisticated development of this thesis, which had devastating effects on the post — World War I peace movement in the United States and was widely used to justify U.S. participation in World War II.

Peace movements all over Europe and North America have done great work to expose the arms race, militarism and militarization which in the final analysis is a profit - earning enterprise that feed directly on human blood and human greed.

yeah, they have been saying that since the 60s peace movements... and people will always be people.

The ecological movements became peace movements as well.

It is a land that I, along with members of Israel's large peace movement, believe must be shared.

A few days after the Vatican unveiled Amoris Laetitia, the Pope's impressive exhortation on families in the contemporary world, it hosted another event — one much less worthy of praise.The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, along with Pax Christi (an international Catholic peace movement),....

The pre-1914 German peace movement, when it was noticed at all, was attacked as a stooge for the English.

And we might see a reinvigorated peace movement in the United States.

If this analysis is correct, then Europe's peace demonstrations might mark the renewal of a strong peace movement on that continent.

There were prison reform societies, women's rights groups, world peace movements, and Sabbath observance organizations.

LG: The Liberian women peace movement demonstrated to the world that grassroots movements are essential to sustaining peace; that women in leadership positions are effective brokers for peace; and the importance of culturally relevant social justice movements.

In addition, more recently it has been noted that online peace movement campaigns have been widely used by many groups to promote a culture of peace, facilitate dialog between conflicting sides, and create and supportive environment for peace to flourish.

GS: The VVAW peace movements, France, and Vietnam are all things you continue to reference in your paintings, but Italy is relatively new.

Here the ceilings overflow with a modern mythology of the War in Vietnam and opposing peace movements of the 1960s and»70s, subjects that — as in much of the artist's best - known work — speak to the enduring significance of the Vietnam era as a nexus of imperialism and resistance.

I was active in the Toronto peace movement of the early 1980s.

Peace movements fail because they become identified with appeasement of national adversaries.

What will become of this prospering American peace movement?

Far from being supernationalistic, Shinto priests today are often active in peace movements.

Very generally, among our forerunners in all segments of the Christian peace movement, the policy was to use all legal avenues for protesting war and expenditures for war (and to speak much more respectfully of government than we are inclined to do).

Peace movements thrive, an English writer has observed, when there is both optimism and pessimism: optimism, because there must be hope that shooting can be averted, that steps can be taken toward a more peaceful world; pessimism, because there must be clouds of war to spur interest in peace issues, to move us out of our normal preoccupation with more pleasant topics.

With «Guernica» he gave the victims a form and with his dove of peace gave the international peace movement an emblem.

A second inevitable weakness of peace movements is their factionalism.

Mable has been an active member in the peace movement, and has worked tirelessly on a wide range of immigrant, social justice, and workers» rights issues.

U.S. military involvement would quickly resurrect «the peace movement» and we would all be back in the glory years of the 1960s, the years that Bill Coffin, Tony Lewis, and others have never left.

But few Africans share the same concerns of the peace movement in the Euro - American community.