(THIS ARTICLE IS ONLY MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
On Monday 17 October, Ny Tid was present at the launch of the book To Prevent Or Stop Wars – What Can Peace Movements Do? by Christine Schweitzer and Jørgen Johansen. The two authors talked about their work analyzing what the peace movement has actually achieved in their efforts to prevent or stop war, by analyzing seven different conflicts from Norway's detachment from Sweden in 1905 to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. We were told that surprisingly little research has been done on this topic before, and that conducting counterfactual history research (analyzing what could having happened if certain decisions or events had happened otherwise) is a rather complicated exercise. Johansen and Schweitzer nevertheless believe that it is part of today's peace movement can learn from what has succeeded and failed in previous peace struggles.
The meaning of experience. Johansen emphasized the importance of learning from history so as not to repeat previous mistakes. "All generals know the history of war, and. . .
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