I believe it does, but both sides have to agree to disarmament. And all the factions within both sides have to condition themselves to uphold peace. It cannot work if you have America issuing threats to the Japanese, calling for a disarmament but America with no intentions for holding the same condition. Disarmament in the world today is one of the last resorts for promoting peace, unfortunately. The damage is already done, the weapons have already been created and are out in the wild or in the hands of brutes.
North Korea will not disarm itself, Iran will not disarm itself, because they realize that if they disarm themselves their country will have to submit to and be exploited by the the violent imperialist nations we see today, China and America.
To answer your question directly, yes disarmament can stop wars and promote peace. But in most cases they do not, because wars are created by capitalists with an interest in profits. If your willfully peaceful whilst they strip you of your land and goods they won't care, your just submitting to evil powers. If you have been living on the land they are wanting to exploit then you are a nuisance, peaceful or not. You are however more of a nuisance if you decide to retaliate with rightful violence, then they will begin to care because you are interfering with their business. What they will do then is make you an enemy through media and give people the excuse to kill you, poison you, whatever.
Greedy capitalists create most the wars we see today and disarmament isn't going to stop them, it will make things easier for them. However I do believe that peace can be won, the day we are all content with what we have, somehow.
Disarmament won't work today.
(03-17-2014, 03:07 PM)Psych0-Smil3s Wrote: With no armaments who enforces human rights or laws...
Words with meaning can enforce human rights and laws, actions do not need to be taking if people condition themselves to listen to the words with the correct interpretation.
If all people obeyed the law, which only so many people do, then, armaments are not needed.
(03-17-2014, 02:59 PM)Meh Wrote: That's another thing, if there were no weapons, countries would use economic war (sanctions, boycotts, etc..), and soldiers would beat each other to death with sticks and other foreign objects.
Economic war is when you have two countries in a power struggle, it does not need to be like this if countries respected each other more and focused more on working together to suit both desires.
Like how brothers should be, of course not all brothers are good and not all countries are either.
Soldiers can live a civilized fulfilling life just by dedicating their lives to helping others.
People in general have the wrong desires, which is what creates conflict in the first place. If all people desire to help one another then the countries would be doing the same.
