Can Peace Technology Reduce War?
How can an ancient peace technology prevent and remove tension faster than weapons?
War-for-Peace
Talking about Peace
Human Rights
Does it really work?
Creating Peace in:
Norwegian:
Militære luftslott
Erik Solheim sover
Terje Røed Larsen famler
“In the studies that I
have examined on [peace-creating groups], I can find no methodological flaws,
and the findings have been consistent across a large number of replications. As
unlikely as the premise may sound, I think we have to take these studies
seriously.”
Ted
Robert Gurr, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Government and Politics
University
of Maryland
A Peace Experiment
In the summer of 1983 the war breaks out in Lebanon. A group of researchers organize an experiement to see if peace technology can impact the war: If war is based on the tension in the collective consciousness, then by reducing stress in the collective consciousness, the war is also reduced. Can peace experts reduce the tension? Is there a relationship between the number of peace experts gathered in a hotel in Jerusalem, and the intensity of the war in Lebanon?
The scientists compose a quality of life index based on war deaths and injuries in Lebanon and fires, accidents, crime and stock market in Israel, all indicators of the harmony in the collective consciousness. The number of peace experts in the hotel and the the quality of life index follow each other like a couple dancing tango for two months, with a 76% reduction in war deaths as the number of peace experts peaks in Jerusalem. The probability of pure luck is 0.0001 or 1 in 10.000. This paradigm challenging study by legendary researchers Charles N. Alexander and David Orme-Johnson is published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution
Double-Checking
To apease the
skeptics, the researchers examine the influence of 5 large gatherings of
experts on the Lebanon war from 1983 to 1986. They compare war intensity during
the assemblies with non-treatment periods. The number of deaths in the Lebanon
war drop 71%, the number of injured 68%, the scope of armed clashes by 48%, and
cooperation between enemies increases 66%. If one hold results together, the
probability of just luck is 0,00000000000000001.
(Davies, J. L., & Alexander, C. N. (2005). Alleviating political violence through reducing collective tension: Impact assessment analyses of the Lebanon war.Journal of Social Behavior and Personality 17(1): 285–338.)
Terrorism too
Terrorism can strike
anywhere at any time, and therefore the researchers looked at the effect of
peace technologists gatherings on the whole world. Three such assemblies were large enough to influence the entire
population of the world. The level of terrorism as recorded by Rand
corporation, was 72% lower during these assemblies than before and after.
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