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World Politics and Strategic Nonviolence
Articles and papers by Gene Keyes
updated 2014-10-05
My senior thesis, and doctoral dissertation,
focused on aspects of strategic nonviolence in world affairs;
these are some related or derivative items, in two categories:
I) Ideas for nonkilling military forces
II) Ideas about civilian nonviolent resistance
(My M.A. thesis, 1973,
was on world map design, elaborated elsewhere in this website.)
I) Ideas for nonkilling military forces
Compiles many ideas and precedents for unarmed military forces.
2014
To Give Life: A Nonkilling Military: Precedents and Possibilities
Extensively revised and updated version in 2014 of ibid: now a 70 p. monograph, incl. 8 illustrations, some in color; and 32 p. annotated
reference list (many items linked online, unlike pre-Internet publication).
(Above is HTML link to the main pdf, http://www.genekeyes.com/To-Give-Life.pdf )
1978
"Peacekeeping
Buffer Action by Unarmed Forces" ( Peace
and Change: A Journal of Peace Research, Volume V, Numbers
2 & 3, Fall, 1978, p. 3-11
Elaborates on one aspect of a peacekeeping mission for unarmed forces.
1984
"World-Wide Rescue" ( Policy Options, 1984-07) p. 27-28.
Advocates that Canada help form a middle-power Humanitarian
Alliance Rescue Command, 75,000 strong, balanced among East, West, and Non-aligned
nations.
1992
Focuses on humanitarian and rescue missions for unarmed forces.
II) Ideas about civilian nonviolent resistance
1981
"Strategic Nonviolent
Defense: The Construct of an Option" (Journal
of Strategic Studies, 4 / 2, 1981-06) p. 125-151. Reformatted
in HTML.
Condensation of my 1978
doctoral thesis at York University, Toronto; offers a newer theory
of national nonviolent defense, based on morale. Refers to Denmark's resistance during World War II.
1985
"Stalin's Finland Fiasco:
Nonviolent Defense Clues From the Winter War" (Crossroads:
An International Socio-Political Journal, Number 17,
1985) p. 27-58. Reformatted in HTML, with extra material and
maps.
Military
defense and world power-politics saved Finland from a Stalinist puppet regime
in 1940. Nonetheless, the Finnish experience is compatible with a morale-oriented
theory of strategic nonviolent defense against imposition of an
alien government.
Addresses the fear that someone might get killed if
a nation opts for nonviolent defense. Indeed! It must be expected. How is
that different from any side in a conventional military struggle?
Peace: The Big Picture
1970
"Bucky and Pick: Two Grand Designers of a World Without War"
(1970 typescript, review-essay on Buckminster Fuller and Robert Pickus; reformatted
in HTML) 32 p., incl. 66 item bibliography.
Compares
two grand-strategy thinkers about world peace. Bucky Fuller promoted "livingry"
over "killingry". Pickus was a co-author of the 1955 Quaker pamphlet, Speak Truth to Power.
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