Review: The Human Right to Peace
| Published date | 01 June 2004 |
| Date | 01 June 2004 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200405900216 |
| Author | H. Peter Langille |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
to
conduct
operations,
resource
extraction
companies
face
unique
security
and
production
challenges
as
they
must
go
where
the
resources
are
located.
Have
all
extraction
firms,
therefore,
acted
without
scruples
as
Drohan
presents
in
her
particular
cases?
The
book
does
not
answer
this
question.
In
closing,
readers
who
view
economic
interaction
between the
developed and
developing
worlds
through
neo-colonial
lenses will find
their
distrust
heightened
by
this
book.
Alternatively,
readers
who
wish
to
examine controversial
commercial practices
and
learn
more about
the
potential
troubling
side
of
globalization
will
find
substantial
back-
ground
and
analysis in
the
book's
individual
cases,
but
not
an
explicit,
overarching and
conclusive assessment.
Christopher
Spearin/Canadian
Forces
College,
Toronto
THE
HUMAN
RIGHT
TO
PEACE
Douglas
Roche
Ottawa:
Novalis,
2003,
2 6 1pp,
$24.95 paper
(ISBN
2-89507-409-7)
D
ouglas
Roche
provides
a
compelling
case
for
reconsidering
con-
ventional
wisdom
and
the
prevailing security
system.
At
the
out-
set,
Senator
Roche
writes
that
"the
world
faces
no
greater challenge
today
than
the
challenge
to
end
its
relentless
march
to war"
(p
11).
He
argues
that
a
combination
of
innovative
thinking,
educational
work
and
action
will
be needed
to
help
humanity
replace
the
current
culture
of
war
with
a
culture
of
peace.
Peace,
he
asserts,
is
a
commonly
shared
sacred
right,
albeit
one
that
"we
the
peoples"
have yet
to
secure
and
one
that
will
require
the
ongoing,
concerted
efforts
of
civil
society.
This
book
is
a
powerful challenge
to the
proponents
of
militarism,
nuclear
weapons
and
the
notion
that
violence
is
an inevitable
way
of
life.
He
elaborates
upon
the
culture
of
war,
supported
by
the
ascen-
dance
of
a
powerful
military-industrial-scientific
complex,
in
which
enormous
wealth
and
privilege
are
accorded
to
a
small
minority
who
exploit
fundamentalist,
simplistic
yearnings
for
quick,
violent
respons-
es.
He notes
that
the
purported
"clash
of
civilizations"
is
better
explained
as
a
clash
of
extremists waged
primarily
between those
who
promote
fears
of
an
external
enemy to sustain
their internal
control.
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INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL Spring
2004
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