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“Now these questions are not new. War, in one form or another, appeared with the first man,” President Obama claimed while receiving his Nobel on December 9, 2009, in Stockholm. “Agreements among nations. Strong institutions. Support for human rights. Investments in development…. Let us live by their example. We can acknowledge that oppression will always be with us, and still strive for justice.”
But perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the Commander-in-Chief of the military of a nation in the midst of two wars…. I’m responsible for the deployment of thousands of young Americans to battle in a distant land. Some will kill, and some will be killed. And so I come here with an acute sense of the costs of armed conflict—filled with difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace, and our effort to replace one with the other.
Barack H. Obama (2009) 1
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Mohan, B. (2011). Epilogue. In: Development, Poverty of Culture, and Social Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117655_16
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