How is the peace movement participating in the political process?

In the fall of 2010, 88-year-old Horst-Eberhard Richter was invited to present his newly published book, Moral in Zeiten der Krise  in Berlin. The chairperson introduced him as the one who had given the peace movement its intellectual and analytical basis, and went on to say that Richter was credited with intellectually binding together psychoanalysis, perspectives on peace, and political protest. The author almost brusquely responded that this was not what it was all about. It was about a common future, social involvement, and a new sense that science carried a political responsibility. The peace movement was a social movement comprised of diverse individuals devoted to a common cause with a common collective identity and typically organized on democratic grassroots principles, with self-organization, through a Coordinating Committee. As such, it took a skeptical view of political leaders. However, notwithstanding its grassroots-inspired structures of decision-making, there were key players who succeeded in developing particularly high public profi les with regard to certain issues. For the purpose of introducing such “protagonists” of the peace movement and their celebrity status, the movement is divided here into the following social and political groups: Christians, politically independent participants.

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general allotment act (dawes act) february 8, 1887

amendment to the dawes act, february 28, 1891

commission to the five civilized tribes (dawes commission), march 3, 1893