Norwich University News Edition: Voices on Peace and War
The authors of this forum, Voices on Peace and War (VPW), explore domestic and global issues broadly tied to the theme of peace and war. Sponsored by the John and Mary Frances Patton Peace & War Center of Norwich University, VPW features subject matter experts and students who present their opinions and arguments on critical issues related to peace and war in the international community. As the image with many candles symbolizes, we hope that a chorus of small voices in this forum will help illuminate a world filled with a variety of complex challenges.
Co-editor: Yangmo Ku, Associate Director, Peace & War Center | Co-editor: Daniel A. Morris, Assistant Professor of Philosophy |Associate Editor: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Administrative Coordinator: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Disclaimer: These opinion pieces represent the authors’ personal views, and do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of Norwich University or PAWC.
In a recent article in Contemporary Security Policy, Linus Hagström and Karl Gustafsson argue that the Sino-American narrative struggle over the meaning of the pandemic was largely unsuccessful for both parties.
- By Linus Hagström and Karl Gustafsson
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
Read more: The U.S, China, and the futility of the narrative battle over COVID-19
Norwich University’s origins are rooted in many firsts. One of the first majors to be offered at the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy, now known as Norwich University, was civil engineering — with a recognition of the need to build our nation’s infrastructure.
- By Tara Kulkarni
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
Read more: Engineering environmental security using the Alden Partridge model
According to the World Bank, indigenous people account for 15 percent of the extreme poor even though they only make up 5 percent of the population, and their life expectancy is 20 years lower than that of nonindigenous people.
- By Arisha Andha
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
Read more: Implementing rights of indigenous people: perspectives of Honduras
Unilateralism defeated
The Middle East peace process did survive the Netanyahu era as well as the suspension by the Palestinian authority of cooperation with both Israel and the United States from May to November 2020.
- By Dimitri Sorgis
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
Read more: The Middle East peace process from Charybdis to Scylla
Countering China’s rapid rise has become a major challenge for the United States.
- By Zhiqun Zhu
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
Hamas has mastered information warfare. Israel and other democracies should take notice.
- By Travis Morris
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
It was meant to be a shining city on a hill, John Winthrop proclaimed in 1630, but the colony of Massachusetts merely began centuries of frontier warfare on the North American continent.
- By Kyle Hansen
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
India has made international headlines for having the world’s worst COVID-19 case count, which now hovers near 300,000 with around 4,000 deaths daily.
- By Jithesh Balakrishnan
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
Jennifer Lynn Martineau was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to a missionary mother and a Haitian father. “So I’m what you call a ‘third-culture’ kid. Which means that the culture I live in is different than the culture in my home.”
- By Gabe Van Hoy
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
When the Georgia state legislature passed its voter-suppression legislation two months ago, a bell tolled.
- By Jacque Day Pallone
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
Read more: Why ‘states’ rights,’ ‘felon’ and ‘criminal’ carry election-law-altering subtexts
In the era of continuous and accelerating technological change that started with the industrial revolution, economies and societies have been repeatedly transformed in ways that can be linked to ownership of the essential and scarce factor of production of the day and command of the economic rents that flow to that factor.
- By Dan Ciuriak
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
At the heart of the current ideological struggles over the memory of the American Civil War lies a simple, if weighty, question: whom should we commemorate?
- By Steven E. Sodergren
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
Read more: The difficulties behind commemorating the Civil War
The 2020 Edition of the Journal of Peace and War Studies (JPWS)
The 2020 JPWS edition addresses a most challenging issue in the current global community—escalation of the U.S.-China rivalry.
In addition to this issue’s peer-reviewed scholarly articles, four Norwich University students — John Hickey, Shayla Moya, Kathryn Preul, and Faith Privett — explain America’s foreign policy blunders in Afghanistan utilizing the Just War theory. They also suggest political, economic, and military approaches that could bring stability in conflict-stricken Eastern Ukraine.
