Top dogs have set the agenda for peace: international social position and peace attitudes |
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Authors: | Å Hartmann K van der Veer |
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Institution: | a Ullevålsveien 52, N-0454 Oslo, Norway b Department of Social Research Methodology, VUA, De Boelelaan 1081c, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Everybody agrees that peace is good, but not on how to achieve it. The Y2K study contained many questions on peace proposals, as well as on prospects for East/West and North/South peace. It ranked these proposals by popularity and studied how the social positions of the 1967 respondents and their countries affected what proposals were preferred and their predictions on peace or war. It now turns out that, neither centre, nor periphery got it quite right. In the former East, the people set the agenda and removed the iron curtain. In the West, however, the top dogs set the agenda, with military intervention, even called ‘peace enforcement’, high on it. Recent political and military developments indicate that ‘peace’ is likely to remain ‘peace between top dogs’; there will be few advocates for putting severe conflicts and violations of human rights in the periphery (e.g. Burundi and Sudan) high on the peace agenda. |
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