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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Partnership Africa Canada · 18 March 2024

Dans ce cadre, nous nous et de développement équitable, et où employons à rechercher et à concevoir des les communautés ont le pouvoir de approches qui s’inscrivent dans une triple …

Nous agissons avec pacifisme et prônons la non-violence FAVORISER LE CHANGEMENT.


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 September 2023 English

Mennonites are often associated with food, both by outsiders and by Mennonites themselves. Eating in abundance, eating together, preserving food, and preparing so-called traditional foods are just some of the …

Jesus’s life as example – and nonresistance (pacifism), which meant they would not take up arms during


INN: Inanna Publications and Education Inc. · 16 May 2023 English

marriage and birth control; about violence and pacifism and war. She’d been thrown out of the United States


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


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 14 April 2023 English

A celebration of cultural inheritance and the evolution of language. Mapping the language, literature, and history of Icelandic immigrants and their descendants, this collection, translated and expanded for English-speaking audiences, …

between love of country and a culturally bred pacifism among servicepeople of Icelandic origin. But


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


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 30 September 2022 English

An officer of Global Affairs Canada from 1990–2018, Geoff White is a career expert in Canadian foreign policy. In Working for Canada he shares that expertise, illuminating the often invisible …

my university years, but I had never espoused pacifism. To me the clear violation of Kuwait’s sover-


DDN: Dundurn Press · 26 July 2022 English

Two survivors of a family massacre share the horrific true story of how a former church minister slaughtered every woman in his family save one over the course of one …

and age. Further, there was a strong strain of pacifism in the family. And yet, in addition to his experiences


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


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