War or Police Operation? Civil War and the History of Peace Movements
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https://doi.org/10.63277/gsc.v26i.4880Keywords:
Peace Movements, Pacifism, Civil War, American War of Secession, Spanish Civil WarAbstract
In the 19th and 20th Century, while civil wars embodied, in an extreme way, the fundamental characters of war itself, peace movements developed as a new phenomenon, rooted in the perception of the concrete possibility of abolishing war. The article examines the reaction of peace movements to the American War of Secession and the Spanish Civil War and tries to explain why, on the contrary of what we may imagine, in both cases peace movements had more difficulty in ‘managing’ civil war than international conflicts.
