{"id":111,"date":"2021-07-19T15:14:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T20:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2021-07-19T15:14:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T20:14:14","slug":"west-point-conferences-on-war-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"West Point conferences on War and Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_20191012_122221844.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_20191012_122221844-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_20191012_122221844\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-112\" \/><\/a> I\u2019ve attended three conferences entitled Ethics of War and Peace that were sponsored by the U.S. military and held at West Point Military Academy. At each of them I identified myself as a pacifist when speaking in a plenary session. I shared my views with cadets and others, and heard their views. After much reflection, for the third conference I decided to wear my \u201cLOVE YOUR ENEMIES\u201d shirt at part of the conference as well as for lunch and during our West Point campus tour. I have definitely had some interesting discussions there, and appreciate the civility that I encounter and also appreciate that I have the academic credentials to be invited to attend.  My blog is maintained to be up-to-date and has more material on this and many other topics such as my nonviolent direct action, various arrests for CD,  political activism, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve attended three conferences entitled Ethics of War and Peace that were sponsored by the U.S. military and held at West Point Military Academy. At each of them I identified myself as a pacifist when speaking in a plenary session. I shared my views with cadets and others, and heard their views. After much reflection, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conscience-and-militarism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}