Hugo Slim: We should never just chant
By Fred • Jan 22nd, 2008 • Category: Reviews‘There is a spectrum of anti-civilian thinking that ranges from rejection, exception, ambiguity and regret. We must understand this better, gauging exactly what ideology civilians are up against in a given war.
‘Besides R2P, we should understand the R2K – reasons to kill. Getting inside the anti-civilian mindset of our opponents, we might find ways to destroy their reasoning…
‘We should never just chant but also start exposing anti-civilian thinking in more detail so that civilians around the world can argue against it more precisely, particularly the civilian communities concerned.’
Hugo Slim, author of Killing Civilians:Â Method, Madness & Morality in War
Reviewed in The Economist
Fred is living in hope that we'll all get better at collective, preventive action.
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