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A strange climate, when social scientists & authors of all backgrounds, who rightfully detest war, must fear for their reputation & standing for speaking critically against the profiteers of war & for speaking constructively about avenues to the #peaceSjg: negative & positive.
It is one thing to hate war & it is another thing altogether to love & want peace [be it #negativepeacejg (mutually accepted ceasefire, cessation of hostilities & anger management) or #positivepeacejg (cooperative project to reinstate mutually beneficial resource allocation)].
Ideally, both of the #peacesjg are pursued simultaneously. In concrete proposals & empirical strategies via dialogical needs-assessment on the ground & in the field. No theoretical blabla. But imagine proposing a cooperative project between the "West" & Russia in THIS climate.
1/. Why do you think #peacestudies exist to prevent wars? War, declared or not, is #stateterrorism by people in uniform, is the ultimate crime, is the sumum malum: The culmination & consecration of the #violencesjg. The surprise about Bucha et al. is for the naïve. This is war.
2/. There is no escaping the horrors of warfare. In any war. Rules, standards & legal consequences of jus ad bellum & in bello notwithstanding, war is an illegitimate means that poisons whatever ends it pursues. Pay attention to its implication here: war, INCLUDING defensive war,
3/. is polluted by the practice of warfare, which by definition mobilizes peak ingenuity for the worst anti-human acts that humans are capable of. War is a means, that never dignifies but tarnishes the goals pursued.However legitimate a self-defense war is, it cannot escape that.
