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How Can the Peace Movement Be Made More Effective?
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Written by Lawrence S. Wittner
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Friday, 02 July 2004
For roughly 40 years, I have
been researching and writing on the history of peace movements. When giving
talks on the subject, I am often asked by activists: How can the peace movement
be made more effective? This is a reasonable question, for most people do not
study history merely to satisfy their curiosity about what happened long ago,
but to derive some lessons from it that are useful for the present.
Unfortunately, however, nothing
in the present is ever quite the same as in the past. This fact, and the many
differences among national cultures, make the “lessons” of history notoriously
unreliable as guides for action. Even so, if we look at the relatively recent
past (for example, the past half century) and confine ourselves to events in the
U.S., it is possible that we can remove the major distortions of time and
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