Teacher Ly Phearith Culture Assignment

 War Solutions:
1. Require the leaders who promote and support war to personally
participate in the hostilities. This would provide a critical threshold of
personal commitment to war by requiring some actual personal sacrifice of
leaders.

2. Show the faces and tell the stories of the children of the “enemy” until we
can feel the pain of their deaths as though they were the deaths of our own
children. It is much more difficult to slaughter an enemy who one recognizes
as being part of the human family.

3. Give full support to the establishment of an International Criminal Court

so that national leaders can be tried for all egregious war crimes at the end of
any hostilities. All leaders who commit egregious crimes must be held to
account under international law as they were at Nuremberg, and they must
be aware of this from the outset.

4. Impeach any elected leaders who promote or support illegal, preventive

war, what was described at the Nuremberg Trials as an “aggressive” war. It
is the responsibility of citizens in a democracy to exercise control over their
leaders who threaten to commit crimes under international law, and
impeachment provides an important tool to achieve this control.

5. Rise up as a people and demand that one’s government follow its

Constitution, cut off funding for war and find a way to peace. US citizens
must demand that Congress not give away or allow the president to usurp its
sole authority under the Constitution to make the decision to go to war.
Citizens should also demand that Congress exercise its power of the purse to
prevent war, including not giving financial support to a president attempting
to bribe other countries to participate in an illegal war.

6. The usual strategies suggested by political scientists and international

relations experts to prevent war include arms control and diplomacy.
Approaches to arms control and diplomacy vary in their actual and potential
effectiveness.

7. As we think about how to prevent war, we must not forget two important
types of changes that create pressures for war: population change and
environmental change. Effective efforts to reduce population growth in the
areas of the world where it is far too rapid will yield many benefits, but one
of these is a lower likelihood that certain societies will go to war. Effective
efforts to address climate change will also yield many benefits, and one of
these is also a lower likelihood of war and ethnic conflict in certain parts of
the world.

8. In addition to these various strategies to prevent war, it is also vital to

reduce the size of the US military budget. Defense analysts who think this
budget is too high have proposed specific cuts in weapons systems that are
not needed and in military personnel at home and abroad who are not needed

9. Stop aerial bombings of conflict territories.

10. Stop delivering weapons to any parties in the military conflicts.

11. Subject international weapons deals to a public discussion in the media

and to an approval by their national parliaments.

12. Discuss and implement measures to prevent illegal weapon deliveries.

13. Cease involvement in international military operations that are not

supported by UN resolutions.

14. transfer money directly to low-income countries, to invest in their local

educational institutions, and to enable technology transfer to low-income
countries.