War and peace in the 20th century and beyond : proceedings of the Nobel Centennial Symposium / editors, Geir Lundestad and Olav Njolstad.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Lundestad, Geir, 1945-2023.

Njølstad, Olav.

Conference Name:

Nobel Centennial Symposium (2001 : Oslo, Norway)

Nobel Centennial Symposium (2001 : Stockholm, Sweden, and Oslo, Norway)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace--Congresses.

Peace.

War--Congresses.

War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 255 p.)

Place of Publication:

River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Together with 29 former Peace Prize laureates, a group of international scholars gathered in Oslo in December 2001, for a three-day Nobel Centennial Symposium on "The Conflicts of the 20th Century and the Solutions for the 21st Century". This volume contains the proceedings of the conference. Together with 29 former Peace Prize laureates, a group of international scholars gathered in Oslo on 6th December 2001, for the three-day Nobel Centennial Symposium on "The Conflicts of the 20th Century and the Solutions for the 21st Century". Gathering some leading historians, anthropologists, economists and political scientists, the conference offered an opportunity to discuss why the 20th century was ridden by so much conflict and how the 21st century may become a more peaceful one. This volume contains the proceedings of the conference.

Contents:

Introduction: The Conflicts of the 20th Century and the Solutions for the 21st Century (Geir Lundestad & Olav Njolstad, The Norwegian Nobel Institute, Norway); Dialogue and Cooperation to Achieve World Peace (Dae-Jung Kim, President, The Republic of Korea); War and Peace in the 20th Century (Eric Hobsbawm, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK); Ideologies and Polities: Liberal Democracy and National Dictatorship in Peace and War (Michael W Doyle, Princeton University, USA); Making Sense of Political Violence in Postcolonial Africa (Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University, USA); Global Inequality and Persistent Conflicts (Amartya Sen, University of Cambridge (UK), and the 1998 Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences); The Rise and Fall of Great Powers (Joseph S Nye, Harvard University, USA); Beyond Militarism, Arms Races and Arms Control (Mary H Kaldor, London School of Economics, UK); Rivalry over Territory and Resources and the Balance of Peace and War: The 20th Century (Louise Fawcett, St Catherine's College, Oxford University, UK); Misperception, Mistrust, Fear (Akira Iriye, Harvard University, USA); The Nobel Peace Prize in Its Next Century: Old and New Dimensions (Geir Lundestad, The Norwegian Nobel Institute, Norway).

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611935863

9781281935861

1281935867

9789812795496

9812795499

OCLC:

879024920