{"id":3901,"date":"2014-09-24T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=3901"},"modified":"2014-09-24T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T14:00:05","slug":"the-role-of-deterrence-in-buddhist-peace-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2014\/09\/24\/the-role-of-deterrence-in-buddhist-peace-building\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Deterrence in Buddhist Peace-building"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 21, 2014<\/h6>\n<h3>The Role of Deterrence in Buddhist Peace-building<\/h3>\n<p>Damien Keown<br \/>\nUniversity of London, Goldsmiths<\/p>\n<p>This article proposes that military deterrence can be a legitimate Buddhist strategy for peace. It suggests that such a strategy can provide a \u201cmiddle way\u201d between the extremes of victory and defeat. Drawing on evidence from the P\u0101li canon, notably the concept of the Cakkavatti, it argues that the Buddha did not object to kingship, armies or military service, and that military deterrence is a valid means to achieve the social and political stability Buddhism values.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2014\/09\/Keown-deterrence-final.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 21, 2014 The Role of Deterrence in Buddhist Peace-building Damien Keown University of London, Goldsmiths This article proposes that military deterrence can be a legitimate Buddhist strategy for peace. It suggests that such a strategy can provide a \u201cmiddle way\u201d between the extremes of victory and defeat. Drawing on evidence from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2014\/09\/24\/the-role-of-deterrence-in-buddhist-peace-building\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Role of Deterrence in Buddhist Peace-building<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71956],"tags":[2647,2658,99207,99209,2702,99208,2646,830,2592,881],"class_list":["post-3901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-21-2014","tag-ahimsa","tag-buddha","tag-cakkavatti","tag-deterrence","tag-engaged-buddhism","tag-kingship","tag-non-violence","tag-peace","tag-theravada","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-10V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}