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In scholarly literature and public discourse, the term peace movement is often used as a synonym for pacifism. But in discussing peace movements, it is helpful to differentiate between the periods before and after 1945....
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Bryan D. Palmer Edward Palmer (E. P.) Thompson was a historian, dissident communist, and peace activist. One of the English-speaking world's finest social historians and a lifelong campaigner for human rights and...
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Heather Squire Nuclear-Free New Zealand was a campaign and social movement involving both government and civil society that succeeded in passing the New Zealand Nuclear-Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act...
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Stephen Heathorn Bertrand Russell, distinguished British philosopher and public intellectual, devoted the greater part of his life to peace activism. Born into an aristocratic family, until 1914 Russell largely...
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Paul Rubinson Residents of the planet Earth did not sit idly by as nations developed nuclear weapons capable of mass destruction during the twentieth century. Citizens of all nations demanded a damper on the nuclear...
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Cultural studies is one of the more controversial intellectual formations of the 1990s and the first decade of the third millennium. It has experienced a period of rapid growth in the academy, appearing at many...
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Born on May 6, 1953, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Tony Blair was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield in 1983. He became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, and prime minister of the United Kingdom (UK) in 1997....
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Sean Scalmer Since the early twentieth century, the term “social movements” has been used to denote socialist and industrial campaigns of labor. “New social movements” are generally dated from the middle 1960s. The...
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Only days after the signing of the UN Charter, the world entered the nuclear age. On 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively, atomic bombs destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The newly formed UN was thus...
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In scholarly literature and public discourse, the term peace movement is often used as a synonym for pacifism. But in discussing peace movements, it is helpful to differentiate between the periods before and after 1945....
From:The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present (Vol. 7. )
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