'Peace has only recently become the prime objective of politics'

(Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics") Historian Hans-Ulrich Thamer on the history of peace politics and the peace movement to present day: potential for mobilisation in the face of growing feelings of threat -- Church and Katholikentag provided for mobilisation and continuity in the history of the movement -- Symbols of peace such as the dove and the peace sign linked the diverse peace groups, whether communist, ecological or Christian - Münster conference "Peace. From Antiquity to the Present Day" including research results

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