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- Title
To Think of Peace in a Time of War.
- Authors
Sember, Robert
- Abstract
The article relates personal reflections on the disillusionment brought by war. As I write, I remember September 2001. A terrible, blessed quietness followed the trauma of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. These feelings of disillusionment remind me of September 1987, when I left South Africa for the U.S. Apartheid South Africa was nothing but borders, and along these borders violence proliferated. The future we hoped for, a future against which reality counseled us, was only an image. This is the wonder of image, the power to give possibility to the impossible. And I ask what acts of peace we have yet to imagine so that we might find that future against which our present reality counsels us.
- Subjects
WAR (International law); SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; CIVIL war; PEACE; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2004, Vol 94, Issue 1, p10
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.94.1.10