Oscar Arias: Without A Shot Fired

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FilmPublisher number: 1795290 | KanopyPublisher: PeaceJam Foundation, 2017Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2018Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (65 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

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The Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Tom Brokaw, Stephanie ElamSummary: This is the story of a tiny country that made a decision to do something that no other country had ever done -- it decided to abolish its army and declare peace to the world. And this is the story of a young boy who grew up in that country, and how he ended up challenging -- and sometimes even convincing -- the greatest powers in the world to follow Costa Rica's example.. OSCAR ARIAS: WITHOUT A SHOT FIRED is a Don Quixote-like saga with great historical touchstones -- Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Cold War politics and Communism, Central American War and Peace. It follows a slight, academic, and most unlikely hero over the course of more than fifty years, as he travels the world in a quest to stop the spread of the weapons of war. In the end, it is a story about the triumph of reason, of the sparrow triumphing over the eagle, and how the impossible dream can sometimes come true.

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The Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Tom Brokaw, Stephanie Elam

Originally produced by PeaceJam Foundation in 2017.

This is the story of a tiny country that made a decision to do something that no other country had ever done -- it decided to abolish its army and declare peace to the world. And this is the story of a young boy who grew up in that country, and how he ended up challenging -- and sometimes even convincing -- the greatest powers in the world to follow Costa Rica's example.. OSCAR ARIAS: WITHOUT A SHOT FIRED is a Don Quixote-like saga with great historical touchstones -- Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Cold War politics and Communism, Central American War and Peace. It follows a slight, academic, and most unlikely hero over the course of more than fifty years, as he travels the world in a quest to stop the spread of the weapons of war. In the end, it is a story about the triumph of reason, of the sparrow triumphing over the eagle, and how the impossible dream can sometimes come true.

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