[Dean's World] Rudy Rummel: How To Keep The Peace—Understand Power

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Posted by Rudy Rummel:
How To Keep The Peace—Understand Power
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1144032774.shtml


   It's maxim not to be despised 'Though peace be made, yet its interest
       that keeps the peace. ----Cromwell. Speech, September 4, 1654

   Born out of conflict, the labor of mutual adjustments to change, peace
   is a new social contract. Its spine is a balance of powers; its
   organs, expectations. But peace eventually ages and, overcome by
   change, dies as it entered this world: in conflict. And of its life,
   cooperative and productive, its offspring, experience, will remain.

   Thus the question: how to assure peace a long and healthy life, and to
   minimize the burden of its inevitable passing. The Peacekeeping
   Principle underlies the answers. It is this.

          PEACE DEPENDS ON KEEPING EXPECTATIONS AND POWER ALIGNED

   (Continued [1]here)

References

   1. http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/2006/04/how-to-keep-peaceunderstand-power.html