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The twenty-first century has seen millions unemployed, livelihoods undermined by environmental degradation, and middle-class cities in Europe, Asia, and Africa turned into cauldrons of violence and resentment. In The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon, a British academic pacifist and American Lt. Colonel explore the changing nature of violent conflict in the twenty-first century, and argue that in an age where we wage war against concepts, not countries, military force hurts rather than helps peacekeeping efforts, and should be replaced by policies that focus on making threatened populations feel secure.

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Mary Kaldor is Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science. Her books include The Baroque Arsenal (1982) The Imaginary War (1990) New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era (1999) Global Civil Society: An Answer to War (2003). Lieutenant Colonel Shannon Beebe is currently serving as the Senior Africa Analyst, Office of United States Army Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence. As one of the most recognised authorities on Africa within the Department of Defense, Lieutenant Colonel Beebe played an instrumental role in the development of the newly formed unified command for Africa, AFRICOM. He is the leading thinker on human security within the United States. As such, his work has been groundbreaking reaching out across traditional bureaucratic boundaries to open dialogues on African security for the 21st Century.

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