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12 - The Great Conversation

A Discussion on Peace after the First World War

from Part III - Actors and Networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2023

Peter Jackson
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
William Mulligan
Affiliation:
University College Dublin
Glenda Sluga
Affiliation:
European University Institute, Florence
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The Great Conversation was a broad-based discussion on international issues and world peace that took place beyond the traditional circles of power and of the intellectual elite at the end of the Great War. In a time of global destabilisation and political innovations, it gave ordinary men and women, mainly in Western countries, the opportunity, the desire and the legitimacy to take a stand on international issues by virtue of a new interpretation of their political rights and their own agency. It was an unprecedented, unorganised, yet transnational movement of thought, which questioned the meaning of citizenship in a context of democratisation of political life.

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Print publication year: 2023

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