Práce se zabývá mírovými snahami veřejnosti a jejich vlivem na mezinárodní politiku. Zkoumá, jak se prosazování mírových alternativ k válce historicky vyvíjelo, jak se požadavky mírového hnutí postupně měnily a jak se v této oblasti tvořil vzájemný vztah občanů a politiků. Zasazuje protiválečné aktivity do širšího kontextu společenského vývoje a také se zabývá formou vzájemné komunikace mezi politiky a veřejností resp. protiválečným hnutím se zvláštním zaměřením na média. Zásadní součástí práce je porovnání aspektů protiválečných demonstrací proti válce ve Vietnamu v 60. ? 70. letech a proti druhé irácké válce v roce 2003.

The presented diploma thesis is conserned with the personality of Budweiser?s doctor Emil Flusser and tries to enter his intellectual world with the historical-anthropological method. Based on his two main writings analysis (Křičící kojenec, Válka jako nemoc) and preserved souces analysis (press of the period, the doctor?s own texts), German-speeking Jewish doctor Emil Flusser, is placed into both czech and german cultural society in Budweis. This diploma thesis is focused not only on his doctor?s work, war and protest against the war are main themes of this diploma thesis. Since Dr. Emil Flusser knew important people (Albert Einstein, Karl Kraus), based on contemporary press study I?ve tried to reconstruct their art of world understanding in period close to the second world war.

Miroslav Volf's theology of embrace in the context of CHC theology focusing on the question of eschatology leading to Christian engaged life Filip Sedlák Abstract At the turn of the 19th and 20th century theology has reevaluated its basis so that eschatology regained its position of this basis. The view, which was kept only by the outsiders in the period of the Enlightment, has become a generally accepted one. The intensity of this shift changed in a variety of ways but it cannot certainly be said that it was overcome or replaced by a new wave until now. The importace of the eschatological viewpoint in contemporary theology has affected to a great extent also the theology of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church (CHC). However, the importace of eschatology in the CHC theology does not stem from the mentioned shift only, but has its historical roots in the Czech Reformation from which the subject of eschatology is inseparable, as well as in its understanding eschatology as an impulse to practical action perceived as preparing the ways for the Lord's coming which can eventually turn to the revolutionary dimension. The continuity with the Czech Reformation was declared soon after the foundation of the new church using the slogan: "Completing the Czech religious reformation." It is undoubtedly clear from many...

The work deals with the life and work of Přemysl Pitter, major Czech Christian humanist, representativ of the social learning, education and journalism in the 20th - 70s of the twentieth century. Introductory chapters are devoted to his childhood and youth, especially his personal reflection of the suffering experienced at the frontline on the 1st World War, which influenced his future life guidance and practical activities. Other parts of the document is characterized Pitter{\crq}s destiny and social work for others - the poor, downtrodden, necessary - in the context of the radical social and political changes in the last century. Here is a somewhat more comprehensive text on the history of the fight to save children from a concentration camps and detention camps, after World War II, ie between 1945 - 1947. The last section describes the life and operation of Přemysl Pitter after retirement emigration in 1951, when the World Council of Churches delegated the duty of pastoral and social services for refugees in the camp Valka in Nuremberg in Germany until its repeal in 1962. The final chapter describes the staying and creative activity Pitter{\crq}s exile in Switzerland in the 60s and 70s. The work includes a brief summary of the contents of archival material and archives of Přemysl Pitter and Olga Fierzová in PMJAK in Prague.