Editing Peace (section)

=== Trans-national solidarity ===
[[File:Peace Steps on Social Movilitation.jpg|thumb|An [[Anti-war movement|anti-war activist]] with a homemade costume during an event in [[Colombia]], 2020|249x249px]]Many "idealist" thinkers about international relations – e.g. in the traditions of [[Kant]] and [[Karl Marx]] – have argued that the key to peace is the growth of some form of [[solidarity]] between peoples (or classes of people) spanning the lines of cleavage between nations or states that lead to war.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hinsley|first=F.H.|author-link=Harry Hinsley|title=Power and the Pursuit of Peace|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1962|isbn=978-0-521-09448-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/powerpursuitofpe0000hins|url-access=registration}}</ref>{{page needed|date=August 2023}}

One version of this is the idea of promoting international understanding between nations through the international mobility of students – an idea most powerfully advanced by [[Cecil Rhodes]] in the creation of the [[Rhodes Scholarships]], and his successors such as [[J. William Fulbright]].<ref>Discussed above. See, e.g., {{cite book|first=Donald|last=Markwell|author-link=Donald Markwell|title="Instincts to Lead": On Leadership, Peace, and Education|year=2013|publisher=Connor Court Publishing|location=Australia|isbn=978-1-922168-70-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/instinctstoleado0000mark|url-access=registration}}</ref>

Another theory is that peace can be developed among countries on the basis of active management of water resources.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://strategicforesight.com/publications.php#.WBm94-V94dU|title=Publications – Strategic Foresight Group, Think Tank, Global Policy, Global affairs research, Water Conflict studies, global policy strategies, strategic policy group, global future studies|website=strategicforesight.com|access-date=2 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161101013118/http://strategicforesight.com/publications.php#.WBm94-V94dU|archive-date=1 November 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=August 2023}}