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On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.
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prejudice
war
compassion
humanity
fear
trust
charter-for-compassion
compassion-action-network
cultural-differences
cultural-diversity
global-community
military-conflict
opportunity-quotes
polarization
slpendid-literarium
stop-killing-each-other
waging-peace
peacism
antiracism
terrorists
militarization
assumptions
compassion-heals-lives
nonviolent-conflict-resolution
police-reform
police-shootings
nonviolence
overcoming-fear
terrorism
xenophobia
uncertainty
political-philosophy
panic
desperation
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Now, personally, I'd have been happier driving an armored personnel carrier in through the front door. But since we're the Met, and not the police department of a small town in Missouri, we didn't have one.
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international-audience
militarization
police-brutality
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Ben Aaronovitch |
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How did we get here? My own suspicion is that we are looking at the final effects of the militarization of American capitalism itself. In fact, it could well be said that the last thirty years have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness, a giant machine designed, first and foremost, to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures. At its root is a veritable obsession on the part of the rulers of the world - in response to the upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s - with ensuring that social movements cannot be seen to grow, flourish, or propose alternatives; that those who challenge existing power arrangements can never, under any circumstances, be perceived to win.
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hope
militarization
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David Graeber |