Just Peace Theory
   My name is Valerie Elverton Dixon, and I study.  I study: ethics, war and peace, womanist/feminist thought, deconstruction, and the civil rights movement.  I am tired of war.  I am tired of the idea that violence can be a just means to any end.  War and violence are insane obscenities that humankind must reject.  This webpage is dedicated to the eradication of violence and war.  It is dedicated to people all over the world who are working for peace.
 
   We ought to challenge the status quo on issues of violence that keep taking us down the road to violent conflict.  Each of us ought think and think again about ways to brings about peace, rejecting the paradoxical logic that says it is possible to get to peace through war.
 
   I am a Christian trying to follow the teachings of Jesus -- radical  love, it ought to say justice and peace.  I think we ought to take seriously the prophetic command to do justice to the least among us.  I am hopeful that whether you think Jesus an all too human teacher, a prophet of God or the son of God and savior of the World, that you will find these ideas beneficial.
    
Peace, Sustenance, and Joy,
          Valerie