This book presents papers on different perspectives in tackling the economic, racial and other injustices which generate conflict. The papers infer that the nuclear threat provides the most urgent manifestation of the inadequacy of war as a means of resolving differences between nations.

Foreword -- Preface -- Maori Welcome -- The Last Child-Seventh Generation Ethic -- National Perspectives -- Comprehensive Security -- The Public Pursuit of Peace -- Should Deterrence Fail -- China's Role in the Search for Peace in Asia -- New Thinking and International Changes -- Analytical Approaches -- Past and Future Wars -- Paths to Peace? Theories of Conflict Resolution and Realities of International Politics -- Controlling International Crises in the 1980s -- In Pursuit of Disarmament -- Mediation as a Technique of Dispute Settlement -- International Peacekeeping -- Broader Issues -- The Moral Paradigms of the Superpowers -- Role of the Church in Conflict Resolution -- Search for Peace under Conditions of a "Technological Fix" -- Justice, Peace and the Preservation of Nature -- The Quest for Security Viewed as a Whole-System Problem