BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T092401Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210910T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210911T170000 SUMMARY:Peace and Nonviolent Resistance (This event will be both in-person and online.) UID:20240329T092401Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Temple University\, Philadelphia\, United States DESCRIPTION:
War causes unconscionable damage\, yet most of the philosophical literature focuses on its justification\, either as a form of national defense or as a means of securing future peace. Although peace is the ostensible aim of a just war\, substantive questions about peace itself rarely enter into the frame. This conference seeks to fill this lacuna\, by bringing questions of peace to the forefront.
\nPeace theorists\, including both philosophers and political scientists\, are becoming increasingly skeptical about the long-held assumption that violence is necessary as a response to aggression. The dominant assumption\, that war is a necessary response to aggression\, rests on equating nonviolence with weakness or passivity. This equation imputes two kinds of failure to nonviolence &ndash\; moral and pragmatic. The moral failure consists in the fact that the pacifist&rsquo\;s refusal to choose war is a dereliction of her moral duty to stand up for herself and her fellow citizens. The pragmatic failure consists in the fact that violence is the only effective response to aggression. Challenging this dominant outlook\, this conference will seek to connect peace to nonviolent resistance.
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