Nonviolent Politics for Disarmament

Abstract

Nonviolent politics can form the basis for achieving a disarmed peaceful world. The major motivating forces for nonviolent politics lie in the universal need for: physical security, economic welfare, and renewed morality. Only in a truly nonviolent world can these needs be met. Nonviolent politics can take the forms of three basic political modes: conservative, reformist, and revolutionary. Each has implications for the type of nonviolent policies which should be pursued. One immediate, concrete policy would be to insist that all governments and violent subnational forces make practical plans to implement the disarmament goals set out by the First Special Session on Disarmament of the United Nations General Assembly. The development of the political will to engage in nonviolent politics, to disarm the global war system and to create a humane peaceful world community will necessarily give rise to the appropriate national means toward achieving these desired ends.