Democracy is "about organizing conflict and living with conflict," he told an audience at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989.
We will still argue about budgets, about new government programs and new tax cuts, but the size-of-government debate will not be the organizing conflict of the 21st century, the way it was for the 20th.
It is not, of course, an absolute peace, but there has been a decline in all kinds of organized conflicts, including civil wars, genocides, repression and terrorism.
But for all the terrible things we see on the news, "there has been a decline in all kinds of organized conflicts, including civil wars, genocides, repression and terrorism," as Peter Singer wrote in a review of Pinker's book.
Two-party and multiparty systems represent means of organizing political conflict within pluralistic societies and are thus part of the apparatus of democracy.
This grassroots community organizing machines runs in direct conflict with the Bush dream of a privatized planet.
While working with the Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ, Dr. Chavis came into direct conflict with highly organized racists who opposed the desegregation of public schools in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Organized military conflict shifted to the sea, with the Ottomans emerging for the first time as a major naval power.
Blundell's analysis shows that more than half of the countries developing REDD+ initiatives have experienced organized armed conflict since 2008, when the UN first started considering REDD finance.
Francis has been especially engaged in the intractable Syria conflict, organizing a fast and a public prayer vigil in St. Peter's Square last year and insisting that the Holy See be present at peace talks in Switzerland this year.
Wilbur calls a colleague named Bill Riddick (Babou Ceesay), a black academic who has had success organizing charrettes, or conflict-resolution meetings, in other communities.
