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	Pacifism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Other pacifists may not on principle be opposed to all social use of coercion or violence in all cases, but believe that war is a category of violence which is never necessary or acceptable.
		Many outstanding pacifists of this sort have taken part in defensive military actions when their countries were attacked, but others prefer to leave their country if it is preparing for aggressive war (such as Germany in the 1930s).
		Many pacifists may seek to be recognized conscientious objectors by their government, and may actively seek other ways to avoid all participation in their nation's maintenance or use of military forces.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Pacifism (2769 words)

	Pacifist organisation -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A Pacifist organisation promotes the (Someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes) pacifist principles of standing against war and (Deliberately unfriendly behavior) aggression.
		Some organisations are concerned only with the removal of (A weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction) nuclear weapons from war although they may call for suspension of hostilities as well.
		Amongst other organisations are those which deal with other concerns but which have a strong pacific element.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/pacifist_organisation.htm (170 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pacifism
		Some pacifists, while opposing war, are not opposed to all use of coercion, physical force against people or destruction of property.
		Some pacifists and multilateralists are in favor of the establishment of a world government as a means to prevent and control international aggression without the UN veto problem.
		He argued that Christians were obliged to be pacifists, and that pacifists, in turn, were obliged to be anarchists â” since government is based on the use of force.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pacifism (7776 words)

	Oliver Kamm: Politics and remembrance II
		The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to the taking of life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point.
		Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writings of younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States.
		Pacifist literature abounds with equivocal remarks which, if they mean anything, appear to mean that statesmen of the type of Hitler are preferable to those of the type of Churchill, and that violence is perhaps excusable if it is violent enough.
	oliverkamm.typepad.com /blog/2004/11/politics_and_re_1.html (1656 words)

	Pacifism biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"Pacifist" often less technically describes a person who accepts risks to himself and others, or prefers the penalties which might accompany a non-aggressive stance even under extreme circumstances, for the sake of avoiding a violent or military solution especially in politics.
		An advocate of a pacifist strategy may be more optimistic or relatively more opposed to violence relative to the situation, differing from his non-pacifist counterpart only in his assessment of the means called for by the specific situation.
		Positions which advise non-aggression under normal circumstances, but reserve the right to self-defense under crisis, while not pacifist in an ideal sense, they may be called more or less pacifist in a pragmatic sense, reflecting a more or less strong commitment to the natural and nearly universal preference of peace over war.
	pacifist.biography.ms (1641 words)

	Organizations - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One hierarchy is "functional" and assures that each type of expert in the organization is well-trained, and measured by a boss who is super-expert in the same field.
		It is also the case that a natural ecosystem has a natural border - ecoregions do not in general compete with one another in any way, but are very autonomous.
		Organisations which are legal entities: government, international organization, non-governmental organization, armed forces, corporation, partnership, charity, not-for-profit corporation, cooperative, university.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /organizations.htm (1250 words)

	KAOS Expeditionary Army - Military Handbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		That might mean Pacifist Warfare, a road trip, or just a trip to the pictures or the beach; the important thing is that it be a fun day (or days) out.
		The Colonel of the Regiment is the Dictator of KAOS.
		The purpose of pacifist warfare is not to win, it's to have fun and commit theater, with the possible bonus of confusing the public.
	kaos.org.nz /kea/organisation.php (2379 words)

	Resisting the nation state
		The first, pacifism, may be seen as the ideology and movement that has resisted an institution closely related to the development of the nation-state: it challenges the right of the state to engage in, and conscript its citizens for, war.
		The word 'pacifist' was coined (as recently as 1901) to refer to all those who opposed war and worked to create or maintain peace between nations.
		The socialist anti-militarist might, if he were not a pacifist, when war broke out, join the army in the hope that thereby he could speed the downfall of capitalism, perhaps by spreading disaffection among the troops and persuading them, if a revolutionary situation arose, to use their weapons against their class enemies.
	www.ppu.org.uk /e_publications/dd-trad1.html (735 words)

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		Some pacifists are in favor of the establishment of a world government as a means to prevent and control international aggression without the
		Buddhists are pacifist, as are members of the Religious Society of Friends, Mennonites, Church of the Brethren, Amish, Unitarian Universalist and some other Christian groups.
		Christians were obligated to be pacifists, and that pacifists, in turn, were obligated to be
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Dovish (1617 words)

	CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the early 1980s the organisation underwent a major revival, as tensions between the superpowers rose with the deployment of American Pershing_II cruise missiles in Western Europe and SS20s in the Soviet Bloc countries and the Thatcher government replacing the Polaris armed submarine fleet with Trident.
		During this period Bruce_Kent was General_secretary and Joan_Ruddock was chair of the organisation.
		Along with the Stop_the_War_Coalition and the Muslim_Association_of_Britain it organised several anti-war marches under the main slogan "Don't_Attack_Iraq," including those on September_28, 2002 and February_15, 2003 in London, and also a Vigil for the Victims of the London bombings on July_9, 2005 in London.
	www.whereintheworldisbush.com /Campaign_for_Nuclear_Disarmament (409 words)

	Reasons to be Impossible: April 2004
		Ultra-left communists, obviously, are not pacifists, they believe in the class war, in the battle between classes which to abdicate is to allow the ongoing horrors of capitalism to continue to be inflicted upon the working class.
		The Socialist Party, is not a pacifist organisation.
		Further, that the social systems, types of organisation, men and women who prosper, in war are driven by that evolutionary logic to behaviours and structures which are inimicable to Socialism - inimicable to democracy, discussion, patience and understanding.
	impossiblist.blogspot.com /2004_04_01_impossiblist_archive.html (690 words)

	peacemaking
		The common denominators for the workers movements and the pacifists became the struggle for disarmament, international arbitration and anti-militarist education of the youth.
		In 1948, the organisations that were given this status tried to improve their leverage in the UN by coordinating their activities in relation to the UN.
		There were even examples of peace organisations reacting negatively to the doubling, again and again of their membership, fearing that the majority of new "nuclear pacifist" members would dilute the radical pacifist ideology.
	santibox.ch /Peace/Peacemaking.html (17691 words)

	Glossary of Organisations: Le (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A pacifist organisation founded in Switzerland in 1867.
		The work of the League of Struggle was organised on principles of centralism and strict discipline.
		The Iskra organisation abroad and the Sotsial-Demokrat revolutionary organisation (which included the Emancipation of Labour group) united to form the League.
	www.marxists.org /glossary/orgs/l/e.htm (1349 words)

	Pacifism Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Today, some countries (for example, Switzerland and Germany) offer civilian service in order to allow pacifists not to go into the military.
		This is in stark contrast to the personal salvation emphasis of many of the so-called "evangelical Protestant" churches.
		Like all philosophies, pacificism, when taken to an extreme, will be found to be absurd by the majority of people in a population.
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Pacifism (3354 words)

	Militarism and the Scouts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Other militaristic organisations also supported the work of the scouts such as The Legion of Frontiersmen, and in their official constitution was an injunction to assist the Boy Scouts, with a footnote quoting Baden-Powell stating that "members of the Legion of Frontiersmen are greatly respected by all Boy Scouts" #29.
		Whilst the various members of the schismatic organisation would have had varying motives for their support of Vane's World Scouts, some criticisms were directed at the feared militarism of Baden-Powell's organisation.
		Although the resurgence of militarism within the B-P organisation was easily obtainable, and the first world war as a national crisis giving sufficient excuse, the post war scout movement became better organised on an international level, bringing together scouts from countries that had previously been enemies, a development Vane could only applaud.
	www2.prestel.co.uk /church/sha/military.htm (5075 words)

	Pacifism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Even H. Wells, who had claimed after the armistice ending World War I that the British had suffered more from the war than they would have from submission to Germany, later urged in 1941 a large-scale British offensive on the continent of Europe to combat Hitler and Nazism.
		He argued that Christians were obligated to be pacifists, and that pacifists, in turn, were obligated to be anarchists - since government is based on the use of force.
		However, it is almost universal among these religions to absolutely reject violence as a means for spreading their religion to uncoverted peoples - a principle for which their adherents are often chastised, from within and outside their communities, on account of the occasions upon which it has been ignored.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/pa/Pacifism.htm (1662 words)

	Minutes of Second Congress of the Communist International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		If we were to regard the matter from the standpoint of the temporary interests of the working class, one could claim that imperialist policies brought a certain advantage, and that was the higher wages of the workers which could be paid out of the capitalists’ super-profits.
		The organisation of the Party which carries out electoral activity, develops a quite special technical character which is sharply different from the character of the organisation which corresponds to legal or illegal revolutionary needs.
		For local and provincial government bodies the Party possesses a programme for the organising of workers’ and peasants’ soviets in the towns and villages, the particular sections of which will substitute themselves for and take over the functions of the local and provincial government bodies at the moment of the revolution.
	www.marxists.org /history/international/comintern/2nd-congress/ch08.htm (10238 words)

	PACIFISM FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Even H._G._Wells, who had claimed after the armistice ending World War I that the British had suffered more from the war than they would have from submission to Germany, later urged in 1941 a large-scale British offensive on the continent of Europe to combat Hitler and Nazism.
		The most notable Anglican of this period not to be a pacifist was the academic and writer C._S._Lewis.
		pacifist position at two successive Lambeth_Councils, though many Anglicans still do not regard themselves as pacifist.
	www.redabacus.com /Pacifism (3023 words)

	jesus4life.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		We enjoy close co-operation with other Christian peace organisations and are affiliated to the interdenominational pacifist organisation, the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
		We also support the work of other campaigning organisations for issues related to world peace, and take part in demonstrations and political lobbying.
		Key organisations are the Campaign Against Arms Trade and War Resisters International.
	www.jesus4life.com /21248.html?sessionidkey=sessionidval (431 words)

	Organization Article, Organization Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One hierarchy is "functional" and assures that each type of expert in theorganization is well-trained, and measured by a boss who is super-expert in the same field.
		Blending democracy, complex system, consensusdecision making, co-operation and competition, the chaordic approach attempts to encourage organizations to evolve from the increasinglynonviable hierarchical, command-and-control models.
		Organisations which are legal entities: government, international organization, non-governmental organization, armed forces, corporation, charity, not-for-profit corporation, cooperative.
	www.anoca.org /expert/organizations/organization.html (1120 words)

	Conscientious Objector
		Sixth, that "work without wages," so glibly talked of among supposedly pacifist organisations, means labor concentration camps of the German-Italian militarist style, and a sort of slavery that most absolutist objectors must resist if they are at all worthy of the name of objector.
		If pacifist organisations get together on the placement problem, this should not be too impossible too impossible a task.
		Management should start initially under the supervision of pacifist groups, but should preferably be organised all in a single national organisation incorporated federally as a non-profit membership corporation, controlled exclusively by those assigned to work under it, and without regard to questions of capital, and labor being the only membership dues.
	www.sidis.net /co2.htm (1092 words)

	Expatriate Online Belgium - Belgian News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The organisation also has new information on the structure of the fortified bunkers in which the bombs are stored in Europe.
		The new figures, on which the report is based, were obtained thanks to the "Freedom of information act", which was recently introduced in the United States, and gives the NRDC access to documents which were secret before.
		Hans Lammerant, spokesman for the Flemish pacifist organisation "Forum voor Vredesactie" (Forum for Peace Action), concludes that, based on this report, there must be 20 nuclear bombs at Kleine Brogel: there are 11 hangars for F16s (Protective Aircraft Shelters) with a capacity that is double that of what was assumed until now.
	www.expatriate-online.com /news/newsstory.cfm?story_no=1312 (532 words)

	AIM25: Women's Library: Records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, UK Section
		WILPF was also one of the first organisations to become involved in the practice of running peace missions to areas of conflict.
		However, the large degree of autonomy enjoyed by the national organisations prevented serious splits within the international organisation which continued to work effectively on other issues such as lobbying the League of Nations on the issue of the nationality of married women.
		Nonetheless, despite falling numbers, it was accepted as a Non-Governmental Organisation with consultative status by the new United Nations and was also asked to give advice to the United Nations' Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/65/6789.htm (985 words)

	Save The Children (UK) Pleads For Iraqi Children : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		We understand how devastating military action could be for the children of Iraq, putting 1.2 million children at risk of death from malnutrition.
		Save the Children is not a pacifist organisation, but acts to ensure governments are fully aware of the potentially disastrous consequences for Iraqi children and their families.
		Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1572397 (292 words)

	U.S. Chemical Weapons tests in Panama
		Public opinion and local officials in Panama were largely unaware of the issue until late last year, when two non- governmental organisations (NGOs) reported that the United States carried out tests with chemical weapons on 16 sites in Panama from 1930 to 1968.
		Information on where the tests were held, and where the weapons may have been left, were obtained in Washington by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), a California-based pacifist organisation.
		But Panamanian Foreign Minister Jorge Ritter protested to the Organisation of American States last week that "the United States has failed to live up to its obligation of cleaning up the military bases" in accordance with what was agreed in the 1977 canal treaties and international conventions.
	www.converge.org.nz /pma/a140899.htm (747 words)

	The National Archives \| Exhibitions & Learning online \| First World War \| Glossary
		Navy League German nationalist organisation, created in 1898 to encourage an extensive programme of naval building in Germany.
		No-Conscription Fellowship Pacifist organisation founded on 27 November 1915 in London by a mixture of Quakers and Independent Labour Party supporters to campaign against the introduction of compulsory military service in Britain.
		No Man's Land Term, dating from as early as the 14th century, that was used to describe the territory between the Allied and German frontlines in Belgium and France during the First World War.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /pathways/firstworldwar/glossary/glossary_n.htm (332 words)

	Clifford Allen
		At first the organisation carried out a nationwide political and propaganda crusade against both the war and the introduction of compulsory military service.
		Allen was also kept busy using his contacts with wealthy pacifists to raise funds for the Labour Party.
		He was frail in appearance, slight with bent shoulders, his features of classical beauty, a total impression almost feminine; at the same time his voice was rich and deep, he was confident and masterly in decision, and had a genius for organisation.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUallen.htm (964 words)

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