Democratic freedom is a method of nonviolence and engine of wealth and prosperity. The most practical and effective way to improve human security, promote nonviolence, and eliminate war, therefore, is to promote freedom and associated human rights.

• Chapters: the prior question about the nature of peace and social justice [14]
  • Chapter: why should you be free? [15]
  
  
• Chapter: The Grand Master Principle: promote freedom [14]
  • Chapter: The Positive Peace Principle: minimize the power of government
  
  
• Chapter: what is freedom and how do we get it?
  • Article: the indicator of freedom: a free press
  • Chapter: what is democratic freedom? [15]
  • Article: democratization
  
  
• Chapter: types of societies and political regimes [6]
  • Figure: the political triangle [6]
  
  
• Chapter: freedom solves the problem of war [15]
  • Joint Freedom Proposition: Violence will occur between states only if at least one is nonlibertarian. [13]
  
  
• Chapter: freedom minimizes political violence [15]
  • Freedom Proposition: The more libertarian a state, the less it tends to be involved in violence [13]
  
  
• Chapter: freedom virtually eliminates genocide and mass murder [15]

• Chapter: freedom produces wealth and prosperity [15]

• Chapter: freedom promotes social justice [15]

• Chapter: an enlightened foreign policy [7]
  • Speech: the (rule of law): towards eliminating war and democide
  • Article: denuclearization and social justice through democracy
  • Convocation speech: foster freedom
  
  
• Chapters: incrementalism and principles of conflict resolution [14]

• Paper: Eliminating democide and war through an alliance of democracies

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The figure in the upper right is from Figure 21.1 of Statistics of Democide.

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