Towards an enduring peace : $b A symposium of peace proposals and programs 1914-1916
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Towards an enduring peace : $b A symposium of peace proposals and programs 1914-1916
Peace; World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace
The end of armed conflict is conceivable as the result of either of two
achievements. Permanent peace may come either upon the establishment of
successful means for the settlement of disputes or upon the elimination
of the causes which produce disputes. This paper is limited to discussion
of the second of these alternatives....
In large-scale organizations purposefully created because of their
utility, history discloses few in which that utility, in its broader
aspect, has been appreciated by all of the cooperating members. Only
in organizations approaching a pure democracy has an approximation to
such conditions been attained. In other forms of organization, force
or reward has been employed to gain the cooperation of persons outside
a limited number of organizers, who alone have appreciated the full
utility of organization. Even in democracies, however, when population
is too large for all to participate in government, it is possible only
for the majority of the members of the organization to exercise control
over general policies; executive functions are of necessity delegated.
Thus three sub-forms of the utility type of organization are to be
distinguished. They may be termed respectively the organizer-force, the
organizer-reward, and the democratic-control-expert-executive forms.
Brief analysis and appeal to history will serve to indicate the relative
stability of these forms, both with respect to each other and to the
sympathy type of organization.
[Sidenote: Peace cannot come from the organizer-force system.]
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