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.
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Disclaimer: These opinion pieces represent the authors’ personal views, and do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of Norwich University or PAWC.
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
On 17 January, 2021, the United States military has confirmed the troop withdrawal in Somalia is complete.[1] However, the goals of good governance, stability and accountable security forces are not satisfied.[2] What gives?
- By Abner Sotocosme
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
U.S. policy toward the North Korean nuclear weapons program over the past three decades has tended to swing between imposing sanctions in order to impede, slow down or force Pyongyang to reverse its nuclear pursuit, and displaying “strategic patience” by shunning the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) altogether, at times outsourcing diplomatic initiatives to other stakeholders such as China.
- By Jingdong Yuan
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
Read more: North Korea denuclearization requires holistic, phased, coordinated diplomacy
I expect to be dead by 2050. I hope my children will live comfortably beyond that and some of my students to the end of the century, but it seems unlikely.
- By David Last
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
American Grand Strategy seems to be going back to the future — a 19th-century one of “Great Power Competition,” that is.
- By Timothy R. Furnish
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
Read more: Grand strategy Ottoman: providing valuable COIN lessons to America
During the years 1554 to 1580 A.D. in Japan, two forces known as the Sengoku Jidai (warring states) came to clash over who would control the population.
- By Nicholas Clark
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
Read more: Rise and fall of the Ikkō-ikki: how religion shapes history
Chinese military aircraft and warships have been entering the airspace and waters around the Korean Peninsula and the seas between South Korea and Japan more frequently since late 2017.
- By Hayoun Jessie Ryou-Ellison
- Category: Voices on Peace and War
Read more: China’s expanding area of operations in East Asia
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.
