ps 1a03 (2010/11) lecture 3.5: bases of international conflict

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Lecture 3.5Wednesday January 19 2011

PEACE ST 1A03: Introduction to Peace Studies

Dr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

Bases of conflictInter-person and international

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Outline

Ideology and conflict

Speciesism

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Questions

Where can we locate the bases of internationalconflict?

What are theeffects ofcolonialism, nationalism,capitalism & sovereignty?

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In his preamble to the National Security Strategy of theUnited States, released in fall 2002, President George W.Bush declared that since the fall of the Soviet Unionthere was now a single sustainable model for nationalsuccess: freedom, democracy and free enterprise, asembodied concretely in U.S. capitalism.

John Bellamy Foster (2006)

Naked Imperialism

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Speciesism and racism are both forms of prejudice that

are based on appearancesif the other individual looksdifferent [s]he is rated as being beyond the moralpale... both forms of prejudice show a selfish disregardfor the interests of others, and for their sufferings.

Richard Ryder (1970) in David Nibert (2002)

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Whaling

World-wide

moratorium in 1986

How does Japancontinue to legallycatch whales

Contentious

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Dig a little deeper

What are the roots of criticism?

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...but you eat cows?

One Japanese

response

Is this a validresponse?

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Double standards?

Its ok to eat cows Its not ok to eat

whales

Its ok to eat pigs

Its not ok to eat dogs

Where should we

draw the line? Where do you draw

the line?

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Summary

Ideology

Speciesism

Cultural Imperialism

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Citations & further reading

John Bellamy Foster (2006) Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance,

Monthly Review Press.

Michael Ignatieff (2004) The Challenges of American Imperial Power in Brian

Loveman (ed) Strategy for Empire: U.S. Regional Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era,

Landham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

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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 21, 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/

Iceberg from Media for Peacebuilding http://mediaforpeacebuilding.com/peace-media-2/1-peace-conflict-

theory/

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