Sentences with phrase «war peace movement»

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

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Though a sweeping peace treaty with the environmental movement seems unlikely, the War of the Woods proves there are ways to lower the temperature of the conflict and regain the public's trust.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee kicked off the 2018 Women in the World Summit in New York on Thursday evening with an all - encompassing worldview on how to effect social change, bringing the wisdom she gained from helping to topple a dictator and end a civil war in Liberia to the social movements sweeping the United States today.

Clergy were scarcely perceived as nondirective listeners as they joined the movements for civil rights and peace, or the war on poverty.

Besides Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, other prominent figures in the black conservative movement are Glenn C. Loury, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Walter E. Williams, a professor of economics at George Mason University; I A. Parker, president of the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education, Inc.; Robert Woodson, president of the National Association of Neighborhood Enterprises; and Joseph Perkins, editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal.

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 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 peace issues, to move us out of...

Take a look at ten issues from that first year or two and you'll find essays on religious freedom, war and peace, marriage and family, philosophical materialism, literary figures, and theological movements.

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.

(Pictured: Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian mother of six who won the Nobel Peace Prize for organizing the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, a movement which mobilized both Christian and Muslim women to end Liberia's long and bloody civil war through prayer, protests, sit - ins, diplomacy, and sex strikes.

Jesus» predictions of wars have been troublesome to those who wish to claim him for the peace movement.

In 1965, as the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations were beginning to peak, a young member of the Catholic Peace Fellowship burned himself alive, causing Merton to observe that both the country and the peace movement had an air of absurdity and frPeace Fellowship burned himself alive, causing Merton to observe that both the country and the peace movement had an air of absurdity and frpeace movement had an air of absurdity and frenzy.

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 toPeace 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 topeace issues, to move us out of our normal preoccupation with more pleasant topics.

If the present peace movement follows the pattern of past peace movements, this one will affect some policies and will move some people, but it will ultimately fail to avert war or to build a broad peace.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Wars ultimately end, but rarely because of the work of peace movements.

Peace movements fail because they are unable, or unwilling, to convince people that wars hurt economies.

Yet, even as the movement restated the evils of the Great War, some peace elements came to feel that they were irrelevant to the European situation of the late 1930s, while others found themselves uncomfortably allied with isolationists at home.

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

While living in New Raven, Connecticut, he was involved in the peace movement and became a resister to the Vietnam war.

So in 2002 she organized the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, a movement which sought to end Liberia's long and bloody civil war through prayer, silent protests, and (perhaps most effectively) a sex strike.

Only days after the people of Colombia voted to reject a historic peace deal he spent years negotiating, the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the country's decades - long war with the FARC guerrilla movepeace deal he spent years negotiating, the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the country's decades - long war with the FARC guerrilla movePeace Prize for his efforts to end the country's decades - long war with the FARC guerrilla movement.

Moving up to 2006, Mike mentioned an SMS - driven electoral victory in South Korea, a successful petition drive in South Africa and a movement to send peace messages to Iraqi cell phones (for a look at less pacific uses of cell phones in the war in Iraq, see this article from a couple of months ago).

(In French and English with subtitles) Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Unrated) Feminist documentary chronicles the extraordinary efforts of the group of visionary women who spearheaded the peace movement which led to the end of Liberia's decades - long civil war and the rise to power of Ellen Johnson - Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state.

Her parents were social historians, both writers, and both very active in the peace and anti-nuclear movements during the cold war years.

Her involvement in the peace movement and anti-war activism, illustrated by The War Series, provided a springboard for further inquiries into many significant visual and cultural movements, including conceptual art, postmodernism, and feminism.

Their practice includes, performances in the public sphere, art and movement workshops, parades and other participatory actions that encourage peace, sustainability, sex - positivity, gender fluidity, and love, while critiquing patriarchy, war, and systems of power.

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.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

In fact, without the peace movement it would have been hard to tax the public for the costly nuclear weapons for an invisible war.

The deeper meanings beyond a forbidden love with a girl from Guanatanamo Bay were frequently invoked during the Spanish - American War (1898), the Cuban - American Treaty (1903), all the way up to the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), when the song entered the mainstream through the peace movement.

Guest — Attorney Jim Lafferty is one of the leaders of the anti-Vietnam War movement and has remained a peace activist for five decades.