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9 articles tagged “peace”.
Concept
When the material rationale for conquest weakens, what happens to the war budget?
The economic argument that abundance weakens the material rationale for conquest, together with the structural critiques of that view.
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Peace
Not the absence of war but the presence of justice, institutions, and trust.
Galtung's distinction between negative and positive peace, and how abundance-era goods underwrite the conditions — justice, institutions, trust — that make violence unnecessary.
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Doctrine
When the capacity to produce at scale is itself a security posture.
The doctrine that abundance-scale production of drones, energy, and compute raises the cost of aggression — an element of national security alongside alliances and nuclear posture.
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Practice
From the Marshall Plan to abundance-era rebuilding.
Reconstruction doctrine from the Marshall Plan to the present, and how cheap energy and compute change what "rebuilding" means in the abundance era.
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Practice
Resilience as a peace institution, not just a wartime fallback.
Civil defense reframed for the abundance era: distributed power, local water, offline compute, and food sovereignty as the backbone of resilience and positive peace.
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Practice
Early warning, open-source monitoring, and verifiable treaty compliance.
The toolkit for detecting and de-escalating conflicts before they become wars: early warning, open-source intelligence, and cryptographic verification in arms control.
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Practice
Housing, healthcare, and education at the scale of forced displacement.
The physical and institutional systems that receive displaced people — and where abundance-era housing, education, and identity infrastructure intersect with humanitarian response.
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Practice
Drone delivery, crisis connectivity, and modular shelter as civilian spillover.
The systems that move goods, information, and shelter to people in crisis — drones, satellite connectivity, and modular infrastructure drawn from civilian and military spillover.
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Concept
Decommissioning stockpiles and redirecting defense spending toward abundance.
The political economy of converting defense spending and stockpiles into abundance infrastructure — historical precedents, structural obstacles, and the peace-dividend debate.
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