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A Future Without Wars: Reimagining a World Beyond Conflict and Division

A Future Without Wars: Reimagining a World Beyond Conflict and Division

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Series: From War to Wholeness, Book 3

General World HistoryInternational Relations

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ISBN13: 9798257210617
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 3 2026
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
What if war wasn't inevitable - but only assumed to be?

For centuries, we have handed conflict down to our children like an unwanted inheritance - normalizing it through history lessons, glorifying it in monuments, and embedding it so deeply into political imagination that imagining its absence feels naive. This book argues that the assumption itself is the greatest obstacle to peace. Not weapons. Not dictators. Not territory.

A Future Without Wars is a rigorous, deeply humanized non-fiction journey through the forces that sustain conflict and the forces - already proven, already working - that can dismantle it. Drawing on history, political philosophy, economics, environmental science, and the lived experience of ordinary people rebuilding from rubble, it makes the case that war is not a law of nature. It is a design flaw. And like all design flaws, it can be corrected.

From the economic warfare of tariff battles to the silent battlefield of cyberspace. From Ashoka's radical transformation in ancient India to Thailand's two-thousand-year living experiment in Dharmaraj - righteous governance. From the children returning to classrooms in post-conflict towns to the generation now building cross-border enterprises that make national rivalries feel like obsolete software.

This is not a book about hoping for peace. It is a book about engineering it.

Across ten incisive chapters and a landmark case study on Thailand's ancient adoption of Ramrajya philosophy, readers will discover:

  1. - Why the belief that war is inevitable is the most dangerous idea in circulation - and how to dismantle it
  2. - How trade became a double-edged sword - and what fair economic design actually looks like
  3. - What the new battlefields of digital warfare, economic coercion, and climate conflict demand from global leadership
  4. - What history's greatest peacebuilders - from Gandhi to Mandela - actually got right, and what we keep getting wrong
  5. - Why the youth generation may be humanity's most powerful peace asset - if we have the wisdom to let them lead
  6. - How ancient Indian philosophy - Dharmaraj, Ramrajya, Ashoka's edicts - offers the 21st century a governance blueprint it urgently needs

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