Deutsch / Français / Italiano / English Data: 10 gennaio 2024Per firmare, inserisci i tuoi dati qui: https://forms.gle/WEBf7toCUtmof1hc8 L’iniziativa “Salvaguardia della neutralità svizzera”, lanciata nel 2022, è stata etichettata dai media e da una parte della Sinistra e dei Verdi come un tentativo della destra populista di isolare il Paese. Noi dissentiamo da questa interpretazione: in…
Deutsch / Français / Italiano / English Date: 10 Janvier 2024Pour signer, veuillez vous inscrire ici: https://forms.gle/WEBf7toCUtmof1hc8 Lancée en 2022, l’initiative populaire «Sauvegarder la neutralité suisse» a été perçue par de nombreux médias et une partie de la gauche et des Verts comme une tentative populiste d’isoler le pays. Militants de gauche et écologistes, nous nous opposons…
Deutsch / Français / Italiano / English Datum: 10. Januar, 2024Zur Mitzeichnung tragen Sie sich bitte hier ein: https://forms.gle/WEBf7toCUtmof1hc8 Die 2022 lancierte Initiative «Wahrung der schweizerischen Neutralität» wird in vielen Medien und von einem Teil der Linken und Grünen als ein rechtspopulistischer Versuch zum Isolationismus gebrandmarkt. Wir widersprechen: Als Linke und Grüne begrüssen und unterstützen wir…
Morality and international politics do not mix easily. For good reason. War is the distinguishing trait of relations among states. And war is all about killing and maiming other human beings. Of course, war is episodic rather than continuous. But the ubiquity of conflict situations remains the hallmark of inter-state relations. Violence is omnipresent – in mind if not in act.
Europe has an obsession about Jews. For nearly 2 millennia, it hated them and persecuted them. Now, after a respite of a few decades, it condemns and abuses Muslims in a similar way – all in the name of supporting Jews. Israel’s inhuman treatment of the Palestinians – culminating in their massacre and mass eviction from Gaza – leaves Europeans unmoved.
Author: Friedrich Glasl
Year: 1967
Type: Dissertation
The Swedish feminist and peace activist Agnese Hellström recently published a book about her struggle to advocate for peace in times of high emotions and relentless propaganda in the West. While the book does not yet exist in English (only in Swedish), here is the abstract by the author. Stay tuned for an online interview…
The multilayered tragedy unfolding in Israel/Palestine has us all transfixed. But not inert. Our emotions and minds are roiled in an effort to make sense of what happened, what is happening at the moment and what the chain of repercussions will be. A deliberate thinking through of this maelstrom requires a rare discipline that is…
Introduction The United States is being defeated in Ukraine. One could say that it is facing defeat – or, more starkly, that it is staring defeat in the face. Neither formulation is appropriate, though. The U.S. doesn’t look reality squarely in the eye. We prefer to look at the world through the distorted lenses of…
By Friedrich Glasl. Differences among actors can escalate to social conflicts if self-regulation gets lost by strong emotions. Affects determine all psychic functions and the behavior of the parties of the conflict. And a destructive attitude and “logic” emerges, the “logic of war”, which intensifies the escalation. The principles of the “logic of war” and the principles of the “logic of peace” are explained in order to de-escalate a conflict if one follows the “logic of peace”. One can use a “window of opportunity” to do the first steps which may lead to peace processes.
