PEACE ST 1A03 (2010/11) Lecture 12. Post 911/New Challenges to Peace

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Lecture 12Monday March 28 2011

PEACE ST 1A03: Introduction to Peace Studies

Dr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

new challenges?post 9/11

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Outline

approaches to change

how to respond to 9/11?

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Who wants to be well-adjusted to injustice? What kindof human being do you want to be?

Cornel West

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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincereignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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We may want to make justice for women, but can we

accept that there might be different ideas about justiceand that different women might want, or choose,different futures from what we envision as best.

Lila Abu-Lughod (2002)

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Tony Porter

At TEDWomen, Tony Porter makes a call to men

everywhere: Don't "act like a man." Telling powerfulstories from his own life, he shows how this mentality,drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men todisrespect, mistreat and abuse women and each other.His solution: Break free of the "man box."

Ted Talks http://www.ted.com/talks/tony_porter_a_call_to_men.html

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Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening socialdisease assaulting the male body and spirit...bell hooks (2004)

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Few of us recognise our own prejudices, and normally

we deny them, giving them what we deem valid reasonsfor our feelings and behaviour.

Fisher et al(2000)

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Summary

Challenging times

new? Creative approaches to

conflict

Seek to address the

roots Reflexive and self-

critical

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Citations & further reading

Lila Abu-Lughod (2002) Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? AnthropologicalReflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others, American Anthropologist, Vol. 104,No. 3: pp. 783-790.

Simon Fisher, Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, Jawed Ludin, Richard Smith, Steve Williams and

Sue Williams (2000) Working With Conflict: Skills and Strategies for Action, New York:Zed Books.

bell hooks (2004) The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love, New York: WashingtonSquare Press. Pp. 12-33

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Image sources

Peace flag, original source unknown.

Marc Riboud. Jan Rose Kasmir, protest against the Vietnam War outside the Pentagon, Arlington County,

Virginia, Saturday, 21 October, 1967 http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rose_Kasmir

Elisa Iannacone. As leaders of the G20 nations gathered in Toronto, Canada, protesters took to the streets

[caption]. G20 summit protests in Toronto : Your pictures, BBC News, 27 June 2010 http:// www.bbc.co.uk/news/10427404

The U.S. vs. John Lennon reproduced from Jrgen Fauths Muckworld http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/02/14/the-

us-vs-john-lennon/

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