Peace Culture And Society

"1989 certainly represents one of those moments. yet, when IPRA held its

12th General Conference in August 1988, few of the participants imagined that

within the space of 13 months popular social movements would topple socialist

regimes in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the German Democratic

Republic.Nobody imagined the Berlin wall or the wire fence between Hungary and Austria being dismantled. Even fewer contemplated the overthrow of the

Ceaucescu regime in Rumania, pluralistic politics in Bulgaria, a single German

economy or a reunited Germany."