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.
https://twitter.com/knowprose/status/1514710965660659712
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.
4/. Differences are made about decorum, intent, proportionality, degree, quantity & quality of brutality. Fine. OR you can take my stance of principle: war is always an illegitimate avenue, to be precluded&prevented failing which it must be exited at the very 1st exit available.
5/. From my radical ANTI-VIOLENCE pov, which you are invited to espouse, [and here a tiny classificatory remark is of import: war, despite the intergenerational & civilizational trauma-footprint it leaves, is merely a subcategory of #directviolence with a nasty napoleon complex.]
6/. the real, the investigative questions AD PACEM then spell out as i.e:
1) who or what stood in the way of prevention?
2) who or what stands in the way of an IMMEDIATE exit out of this war?
3) who or what benefits from the current maintainance & continuation of said war?
1) who or what stood in the way of prevention?
2) who or what stands in the way of an IMMEDIATE exit out of this war?
3) who or what benefits from the current maintainance & continuation of said war?
7/. Though such a #peaceresearch investigation will produce that information too as a byproduct while pursuing our final purpose (namely "how do we create nonviolent interaction where we now have a war"),the questions in 6/. aren't pursued to find who to blame, shame & prosecute.
8/. We leave that task to duly mandated legalists: Theirs, at this junction, is not to advance #positivepeacejg, but to judge over the data produced by the past & assign punishment as ordained by some codified law; just the types of things done under conditions of #negativepeace.
9/. Correct answers to these questions below are necessary from a logical & #peacepolitics perspective, because identifying those actors & factors informs us about who & what delays the rational & systematic implementation of nonviolent interaction.
https://twitter.com/JohanGaltung/status/1514790328426909696?s=20&t=xJhANdX0XikVr65R59MbRA
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