Research Communication: Global Compassion and Compulsion

William Eckhardt
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William Eckhardt: Canadian Peace Research Institute, Oakville, Ontario

Journal of Peace Research, 1979, vol. 16, issue 1, 79-86

Abstract: Research mostly by Canadian peace researchers on attitudes and policies at the personal, group and national level toward international issues in summarized and discussed.The organizing concept is the compassion — compulsion dimension, compassionate views representing values such as freedom, justice, peace, and globalism, whereas compulsion tends to stand for militarism, pushishment, religiousness. The main part of this RC deals with compassion at the global level, drawing upon a 19 nation study covering 14 policy areas. Among other things, the analysis shows that China is the most, the United States the least 'compassionate' nation, the developing countries on the whole being more compas sionate than the developed ones.

Date: 1979
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