WAR AND PEACE: ILLUSIONS AND REALITY
Abstract
War has always been with us. All early history is a series of accounts of wars. Because this is so we ask the question: Is war inevitable? When we consider the nature of the military arms being produced, we must turn around man's traditional way of responding to conflict. There can be no more world wars. If we have one more the planet itself will be stripped of life. Let our memory of recent disasters help us to clearly announce to our leaders that in another war we all will be losers. We must find a road to solutions that forbid the use of nuclear weapons. It is our right to live, not in fear, but in hope. RÉSUMÉ La guerre a toujours été avec nous. Toute l'histoire ancienne n'est qu'une longue série de récits de guerre. Cest ce qui nous pousse à nous poser la question: la guerre est-elle inévitable? Si l'on considère la nature des armements militaires produits de nos jours, on ne peut envisager un scénario classique devant le conflit. On ne peut plus y avoir de guerre mondiale. Si nous en avons une, la planète proprement dite sera dépouillée de toute vie. Servons-nous de souvenir des récentes catastrophes pour faire comprendre à nos dirigeants qu'en cas de guerre, nous serons tous perdants. Nous devons trouver des solutions qui interdisent le recours aux armements nucléaires. Nous avons en effet le droit de vivre, non dans la peur, mais dans l'espoir.Downloads
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1987-09-01
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Wiesel, E. (1987). WAR AND PEACE: ILLUSIONS AND REALITY. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 22(003). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7760
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