Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Survivors of Jan. 8 aid gun controls [View all]iverglas
(38,549 posts)a little about the Centre and places like it. They aren't actually bell-bottomed hippies sticking flowers into the barrels of guns. They're doing work that I'm quite sure few hereabouts would have no understanding of, because it involves kinda heavy duty theory and actual research and suchlike.
http://www.cpsvp.vt.edu/undergraduate.html
There is such a vast vastness of information out there in the world, and in particular on the internet these days. It's completely overwhelming, actually. But if one takes an interest in something, one can, in a couple of hours, at least get a general grasp of what it is about and what is going on in relation to it.
Here's the academic program instituted by Nowak's centre:
http://www.cpsvp.vt.edu/undergraduate.html
Here's something a little more advanced:
http://www.munkschool.utoronto.ca/trudeaucentre/
(You won't have heard of the Munk School of Global Affairs
http://www.munkschool.utoronto.ca/
but any serious academic in the field of political science in the US will have, for example.)
Scholars associated with the Centre work within and beyond the traditional purview of international affairs, studying interstate war as well as major conflict inside countries, including revolution, insurgency, ethnic strife, guerrilla war, terrorism, and genocide. They seek to identify the deep causes of this strifefrom poverty, resource scarcity, and weapons proliferation to competing claims for justice and failures of foreign-policy decision making.
You'll find peace and conflict studies programs at all levels at universities all over the world, including the US.
I'm smelling anti-intellectualism, not an uncommon scent around here. Myself, rather than jeer at a novel idea, I generally try to find out more about it. I learn a lot of really neat shit along the way.