Hopes and fears: 1992 (Canadian Papers in Peace Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 088866950X ISBN 13: 9780888669506

Publisher: Dundurn, 1992

Synopsis

It has been said many times that the human future is clouded by multiple and mutually interacting problems. While in the 19th century we had the luxury of believing in almost automatic progress - an "onward and upward" assumption - that belief has been shattered by two world wars, more than 150 smaller ones, the invention of weapons of mass destruction, increasing degradation of the environment, both by pollution and resource exhaustion (i.e. adding "bads" and subtracting "goods" from our natural endowment), a horrendous (and increasing) gap between rich and poor within and between nations, explosions of racism and chauvinistic nationalism, increasing use of torture as a police method, totalitarian regimes, repeated episodes of genocide … not a picture of progress toward a better world. And yet, we have not quite lost faith in the human potential for more beneficial and harmonious development.

About this title

About the Author

Born in Prague, Hanna Newcombe, co-founder of Peace Research Abstracts and Peace Research Reviews, was the recipient of the 1997 Pearson Medal of Peace and was elected a member of the Order of Canada in 2007 for her work in peace research and international relations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dundurn
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088866950X
• ISBN 13: 9780888669506
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 195
• Editor: Newcombe Hanna