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AMERICAN SOCIETY SUFFERS LESS FROM TERRORIST VIOLENCE THAN FROM "LEGITIMATE" VIOLENCE COMMITTED BY INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS RANGING FROM CORPORATIONS TO GOVERNMENTS. VIOLENCE, ON VARIOUS LEVELS, IS STANDARD BEHAVIOR IN AMERICAN SOCIETY. IT IS JUSTIFIED BY RATIONALES RANGING FROM "BUYER BEWARE" TO "THE NEED FOR DOMESTIC ORDER" TO "PROTECTING U.S. INTERESTS" TO "PROMOTING NATIONAL SECURITY." MOREOVER, VIOLENCE IS VIEWED AS A LEGITIMATE MEANS OF SOLVING PROBLEMS, EVEN IF THE PROBLEM IS VIOLENCE ITSELF. USING VIOLENCE TO SOLVE SOCIAL AND OTHER PROBLEMS COMPRISES A LARGE PORTION OF THE VIOLENCE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY. AMERICAN LEADERS USE WAR AND OTHER VIOLENT STRATEGIES TO HANDLE SUCH DIVERSE PROBLEMS AS SADDAM HUSSEIN AND STREET CRIME.

WE WILL GAIN LITTLE FROM THE PIECEMEAL REFORMS THAT HAVE BEEN ADOPTED THUS FAR IN THE UNITED STATES. MAINSTREAM LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS MET CRIMINAL VIOLENCE WITH A MASSIVE BARRAGE OF OFFICIAL VIOLENCE. WE HAVE A CULTURE NOT ONLY OF VIOLENCE, BUT OF VIOLENT SOLUTIONS. WE LAUNCH WARS TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS WHICH MAY SEEM IMPRESSIVE, BUT BESIDES FAILING, THEY ARE HELPING TO CREATE MORE VICTIMS THAN EVER BEFORE. THIS ARTICLE OFFERS A STRATEGY THAT COULD SUCCEED AGAINST CRIME AND ALSO HELP UNDO VARIOUS OTHER KINDS OF VICTIMIZATION IN U.S. SOCIETY.

AN ALTERNATIVE CRIME POLICY WOULD WAGE PEACE, NOT WAR. IN ORDER FOR THE AUTHOR TO SUPPORT THIS THESIS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ARE EXPLORED IN THIS ARTICLE: WHAT ARE THE IDEOLOGIES AND STRUCTURES THAT LINK HOW WE PURSUE BOTH NATIONAL AND DOMESTIC SECURITY? HOW DOES EACH SYSTEM HELP GENERATE THE VIOLENCE IT THEN SEEKS TO VIOLENTLY DESTROY? WHY DOES WAR FAIL? HOW CAN PEACE, INSTEAD, SUCCEED? HOW CAN WE BEGIN SEEING REAL CRIME CONTROL, NOT AS WAR BUT RATHER AS PEACEMAKING?

Drug wars repeatedly fail, yet officials & the media continue to urge support for antidrug campaigns from the US public. Besides perpetuating drug abuse, these crusades create considerable new victims & victimization, & should have no role in progressive victim movements. While most of the US lose from drug crusades, a powerful few win big. Rather than a war on drug victims, a peace movement against drug abuse & the social injustices that produce it is needed. AA

This book deliberates on developments related to Knowledge Pathing: Multi-, Inter- and Trans-Disciplining in Social Sciences. The book explores the value of this vexed concept in advancing the course for multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives, methodologies, theories and epistemologies of knowledge pathing. The discourse on knowledge pathing remains critical in advancing debates and dialogues in the humanities and social sciences spaces of research and studies. This book makes a significant contribution to the scholarly understanding of indigenous knowledge research by focusing on problematising local indigenous community research from Afro-sensed perspectives. The field of indigenous knowledge research and higher education in Africa is complex. Yet, across the continent, higher education has been the sector to least embrace Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) or regard indigenous science as a legitimate source of inspiration for the development of youth and local communities. Higher education institutions and local indigenous communities should thus generate knowledge and power through research. On the other hand, higher education researchers should use their research processes and skills for cross-beneficiation when engaging local indigenous communities. This book embodies the current discourse on decolonisation and the use of indigenous knowledge in research and is intended for research specialists in the field of indigenous knowledge systems.