Articles by David Carroll Cochran

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What Slavery, Ordeals, Duels and Lynching Can Teach Us about Abolishing War
David Carroll Cochran – Waging Nonviolence, 15 Jun 2015

Wars still exist, but in John Mueller’s influential theory, most represent the “remnants of war,” low-intensity civil war fought by loosely-organized warlords and criminal gangs in failed states. Abolition is not a neat and linear process. Its starts and stops, stubborn hold-outs and even reversals can make it seem futile. However, Margaret Mead famously suggests that “Warfare Is Only an Invention – Not a Biological Necessity.”

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