ABSTRACT
Virginia’s position is that prevention may be expanded to include the “mental health” of the whole world; her corollary position that change is possible through engagement of the passion of only a small percentage of the population certainly proved true in Moscow in August 1991. Zur and Glendinning speak to “the role of gender on warmaking and its potential impact on peace-making,” taking a systems approach to examining that relationship between the two. Golden makes the bridge between domestic violence and large scale violence as lying in societal attitudes. The Gulf War “built” a fiery chasm, proving technology now makes it possible to throw up such walls with blinding speed and accuracy. The Event in Moscow bridged a moat, alive with 50 years worth of snapping, snarling and waiting nuclear warheads–proving those bridges can be built over even the worst of pits.
