By Peter T. Coleman
Commemorating Morton Deutsch’s ninety fifth birthday, this publication offers ten significant texts by way of this hugely revered social psychologist on battle and peace. This moment quantity offers Deutsch in his position as a number one social technology activist on problems with conflict and peace – writing papers, making speeches and taking part in demonstrations. After serving within the U.S. Air strength in the course of international struggle II and being provided special Flying move medals, as a psychologist he was firm to paintings for a extra peaceable global. encouraged by way of Kurt Lewin, who believed that not anything used to be as sensible as a very good idea, Deutsch pursued theoretical paintings on such concerns as cooperation-competition, clash solution and social justice with reference to problems with conflict and peace. As President of the Society for the learn of Peace, clash and Violence, the Society for the mental research of Social concerns and the foreign Society of Political Psychology, he helped to foster social technological know-how efforts to make for a extra peaceable world.
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I suggest that we take the initiative to propose fair rules in the competition for the unaligned countries. As Amitai Etzioni (1962) has pointed out, a set of rules would include such principles as the following: 1. No nonaligned country would be allowed to have military ties with other countries, particularly not with any major power. 2. No foreign troops, bases, or arms would be permitted to remain in or to enter the nonaligned country. Foreign arms would be prohibited to rebels and governments alike in nonaligned countries.
We would request the USSR to reciprocate in a similar fashion. I believe our superfluity of nuclear weapons is such that we could afford to make several rounds of unilateral cuts, even if the Soviets did not initially reciprocate, without losing our capacity to retaliate against any nuclear attack so that destruction of the Soviet society would still be assured. Such repeated unilateral initiations, if sincere in intent and execution, would place the Soviet Union under the strongest pressure to reciprocate.
We must by all means get satisfactory results from this. Similarly, there is considerable evidence to suggest that those who have acquired power, profit, prestige, jobs, knowledge, or skills during the course of conflict may feel threatened by the diminution or ending of conflict. S. military-industrial complexes have developed vested interests in the cold war; it justifies large military budgets, gives them positions of power and prestige, and makes their skills and knowledge useful. They have good reason to be apprehensive about an “outbreak of peace” that would make them obsolete, deprive them of power and status, and make them lose financially.