The Dynamics of Disarmament

Abstract

Introduces analysis of some of those unconscious social processes which drive the arms race and motivate the various peace movements, so many of which are hysterical symptoms of social anxiety rather than problem-solving initiatives able to change the underlying causes themselves. It was published in the September 1982 issue of ‘Chronicle’, the journal of the Dag Hammarskjold Information Centre on the Study of Violence and Peace.