Pacifism

Pacifism is opposition to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence. The word pacifism was coined by the French peace campaigner Émile Arnaud (1864–1921) and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress in Glasgow in 1901. A related term is ahimsa (to do no harm), which is a core philosophy in Indian Religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. While modern connotations are recent, having been explicated since the 19th century, ancient references abound. In modern times, interest was revived by Leo Tolstoy in his late works, particularly in The Kingdom of God …

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APF: Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada · 9 May 2023 English

In 2005, the Throughout Japan, pro-constitutionalists and ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) released draft constitutional revisionists gathered on May 3 outlines for constitutional revision, including the to commemorate the 76th …

Momo Sakudo security concerns with the notion of pacifism (Analyst); Tae Yeon Eom (Analyst); Sue Jeong embedded


RI: Rideau Institute · 26 January 2023 English

Laurent in the Gray Lecture of 1947.22 The foundations of twentieth-century arms control and military export restraint – including the necessity of proportionality, discrimination, and the laws of war – …

As the body of this work will make clear, War: Pacifism in Canada, 1900-1945 (Toronto: University of Toronto 1988. Socknat, Thomas Paul. Witness Against War: Pacifism in Canada, 1900-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto


Public Order Emergency Commission (Canada) · 7 December 2022 English

CHRISTOPHER BARBER: Prior to the convoy? 18 MR. [...] CHRISTOPHER BARBER: The lack of the drivers 7 getting the vaccination to be able to cross the border as of the …

envoyé la main, on 14 s’est dit bonjour, on les a remerciés pour leurs services, puis 15 ils nous ont remerciés pour notre pacifisme


Health and Welfare Commissioner of Quebec · 26 July 2022 French

Le Plan d’action jeunesse 2021-2024 contient des mesures soutenues par le gouvernement du Québec pour réaliser les objectifs de la Politique québécoise de la jeunesse 2030 en vue d’accompagner les …

du secondaire dans des projets parascolaires, tout au long de l’année, en lien + Environnement avec l’environnement, le pacifisme


CHA: Canadian Historical Association · 7 July 2022 English

Tanya Grodzinski, Royal Military College, Kingston Society From the age of thirteen to just prior to his death at thirty-two at the Battle of theFr omP the lage of thiirnteen …

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Wilson Center Canada · 27 May 2022 English

Denmark is the Vice President of Programs and Director of Studies; Senior Advisor to the Asia Program; and Senior Fellow in the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States …

(New York: Norton, 1997), 366; Jennifer Lind, “Pacifism or Passing the Buck? Testing Theories of Japanese


PUQ: Les Presses de l'Université du Québec · 11 May 2022 French

Le tourisme a longtemps été abordé sans tenir compte du rôle des sexes dans l’articulation de l’expérience. Or les femmes sont aujourd’hui plus nombreuses que les hommes à faire du …

• Dès le milieu du XIXe siècle, apparition de campagnes en faveur de la tempérance, du droit de vote des femmes, du pacifisme


PUQ: Les Presses de l'Université du Québec · 23 March 2022 French

Au-delà des approches usuelles, surspécialisées et cloisonnées, Nancy Fraser offre l’occasion de réfléchir en profondeur sur l’actuelle crise multi­dimensionnelle (sociale, économique, politique, écologique et sanitaire) et sur les éventuelles voies …

dans les années 1960 et qui se sont rapidement diffusés à travers le monde : l’anti- racisme, l’anti-impérialisme, le pacifisme


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2021 English

The celebrated author of Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Nineteen contributors take a variety of critical and …

gender stereotypes, “historians studied ‘feminist pacifism’ K A Z U K O S A K U M A 2 2 rather than women’s


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 2 November 2021 English

Mennonite farmers can be found in dozens of countries spanning five continents. In this comparative world-scale environmental history, Royden Loewen draws on a multi-year study of seven geographically distinctive Anabaptist …

Anabaptists were rural peasants given to absolute pacifism and social quiescence. Both the violent rural


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