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Conferencing the international at the World Pacifist Meeting in India, 1949 by Hodder, Jake

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French public attitudes towards the prospect of war in 1938-1939: `pacifism' or `war anxiety'? by Hucker, Daniel

“…This article challenges the received wisdom that French public opinion was infused with pacifist sentiment during the 1930s, and that this sentiment in turn contributed to the French defeat of 1940. …”
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The Peacemaker's Role in the Anti-Vietnam War by Oliver, Bobbie

“…When the Menzies government reintroduced National Service in 1964 and then sent conscripted soldiers along with volunteer service personnel to fight in the Vietnam War, the pacifist movement in Australia was faced with the dilemma of whether to actively encourage young men to be conscientious objectors to National Service, or merely support those who already held such beliefs? …”
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Napalm and After: The Politics of Grace Paley's Short Fiction by Newman, Judie

“…Comparatively few contemporary writers have accompanied American POWs home from Hanoi, been arrested on the White House Lawn, or been dragged off in shackles to serve time in the Greenwich Village Women's House of Detention. Paley's pacifist, socialist politics are also deeply rooted in a family past where memories were still fresh of Tsarist oppression - one uncle shot dead carrying the red flag, and parents who reached America only because the Tsar had a son and amnestied all political prisoners under the age of twenty-one. …”
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On absence and abundance: biography as method in archival research by Hodder, Jake

“…I reflect on my own research experiences in the pacifist archive to suggest that the growing scale and scope of many collections, along with the taxing research demands of transnational perspectives, pose immediate practical challenges for geographers characterised as much by abundance as by absence. …”
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Toward a geography of black internationalism: Bayard Rustin, nonviolence and the promise of Africa by Hodder, Jake

“…This article charts the trip made by civil rights leader Bayard Rustin to West Africa in 1952, and examines the unpublished ‘Africa Program’ which he subsequently presented to leading American pacifists. I situate Rustin’s writings within the burgeoning literature on black internationalism which, despite its clear geographical registers, geographers themselves have as yet made only a modest contribution towards. …”
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Removal of despotic political regime: the Abū Dharr’s legacy and its legitimacy by Jani, Mohd. Shah, Fatah Yasin, Raudlotul Firdaus

“…Having the fact on the existence of another view by majority scholars that more inclined towards pacifist ideology which stressed on political stability as a prerequisite to prosperity, the article emphasizes more on the revolutionary school, while the second shall be highlighted when it is necessary for comparison. …”
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How Have Post-9/11 Wars Been Gendered? by Sarac, Busra Nisa

“…The study includes historical background of role of women in war, how to understand manhood in relation to war, the social construction of women in relation to war, feminist perspectives (colonial feminism and pacifist feminism) towards the wars, and the transformation of women from Home-Front to Front-Line after the 9/11. …”
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Does democratic peace theory genuinely envision global peace? a critical approach by Kiprizly, Goktuk, Kaya, Yasin Caglar

“…This study revealed that democracies are not pacifist actors in the international realm. As articulated by the critical approach, the study also puts forth that the concept of Democratic peace facilitates the expansionist ambitions of hegemonic powers in the international system by utilizing various humanitarian interventions and serves as a means to maintain imperialist peace. …”
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