From William Du Bois, from a mailing list I’m on:

Bush’s Utopian Plan for Peace and mine differ at the core.

Hal Pepinsky, one of the founders of peacemaking criminology, talks about the dynamics of democracy and violence.

He defines democracy as responsiveness — we take each other into account. We may not change our agenda but we take what the Other has to say into account. Violence is the opposite of democracy. It is asserting your own will and refusing to take the other into account…

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