World Justice means world peace.

Title

World Justice means world peace.

Description

Can peace ever be stable when injustice exists, and is just violence even possible? This poster, created by the London Quaker Friends in 1938, propels us to the heart of such questions by instantly equating peace and justice. Yet the Quakers were not alone in making this association. Virginia Woolf connects these ideas by setting women’s rights (justice) as a precondition for preventing war (peace). Langston Hughes argues the inextricability of communism (which he views as the path to peace) and racial equality (justice). Muriel Rukeyser shows that giving war victims a voice (justice) is an ethical undertaking in her quest for peace in Spain. Like the Quakers, these authors all worked within a field now called “positive peace”: exploring how to construct a world not only free of war, but where societies and institutions actively promote justice for all, thus generating a lasting peace.

Source

Northern Friends Peace Board and the Friends Peace Committee

Date

1938

Contributor

Sophie McGlynn

Type

Poster

Files

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Citation

“World Justice means world peace.,” Testimonies in Art & Action: Igniting Pacifism in the Face of Total War, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ds-omeka.haverford.edu/peacetestimonies/items/show/151.

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