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• Originally published 07/27/2014

  Where Is The Passion for Peace?

  Today, as conflicts and bloodshed occur in Ukraine (and Gaza, Syria, and elsewhere), we wonder why in the past century we have advanced so little in our ability to prevent such senseless wars.

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• Originally published 04/03/2014

  The World Is Much Safer Than 20th-Century Historians Would Have You Believe

  We should heed historians' warnings, but we should also appreciate the progress that global security has made in the intervening century.

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• Originally published 05/06/2013

  The Historic Agreement to End the Conflict in Kosovo

  Photo credit: Flickr/_Matt_T_After protracted, months-long negotiations, Kosovo and Serbia recently agreed to a compromise on sovereignty and autonomy that would end two decades of conflict. In extinguishing the last embers of war in what was Yugoslavia -- the volatile, ethnically divided nation where the assassination of an Austrian archduke launched World War I, and where civil war throughout the nineties led to ethnic cleansing and other atrocities -- Europe is nearing the end of its long journey to overcome its tribal enmities and build a cohesive, peaceful civilization.

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• Originally published 07/18/2014

  War, Peace, and Murray Rothbard

  With wars raging in the Middle East, it seems like a good time to revisit a classic work by Murray Rothbard (1926–1995), the economist, historian, and political philosopher who had a lot to do with the birth and evolution of the modern libertarian movement. His “War, Peace, and the State” is something that all peace advocates — not just self-conscious libertarians — ought to be familiar with.