Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence
A Just Peace Ethic Primer exemplifies the ecumenical, interfaith, and multicultural aspects of a nonviolent approach to avoiding and transforming violent conflict. It is a vital resource for scholars, advocates, and activists in politics, history, law, philosophy, theology, and conflict resolution.
Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence
A Just Peace Ethic Primer exemplifies the ecumenical, interfaith, and multicultural aspects of a nonviolent approach to avoiding and transforming violent conflict. It is a vital resource for scholars, advocates, and activists in politics, history, law, philosophy, theology, and conflict resolution.
Throughout his major works, Leo Tolstoy argues that the central problem of the modern world is its delusional character. We have become delusional about the utility of science, the effects of music, the nature of love and the divine, and the inescapable reality of death. A Prophet of Modern Delusions: Tolstoy's Critique of Modernity explores ......
Thinkers From Many Countries Address the Political, Economic, and Social
In this book, intellectuals from around the world make specific recommendations for a wide range of political, economic and cultural concerns. Discussion topics include the links among democracy, development and the market economy; collapsing global development visions; and more.
Adam Curle's pioneering work as founding Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University was far more significant in the peace studies field than is generally recognised. Even though his ideas were way ahead of his time, they have not been adequately taught and understood partly because of the dominance of realist approaches to political ......
Strategy and Policy Choices for America's Longest War
Given the realities of the Taliban's persistence and the desire of US policymakers - and the public - to find a way out, what can and should be the goals of the US and its allies in Afghanistan? This title provides a comprehensive assessment of the alternatives for restoring peace and stability to Afghanistan.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Trump's foreign policy, including detailed case studies of policy toward key countries. Mel Gurtov makes a vigorous argument, centered on human-interest priorities, for rejecting a foreign policy that turns its back on the major issues of our times.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Trump's foreign policy, including detailed case studies of policy toward key countries. Mel Gurtov makes a vigorous argument, centered on human-interest priorities, for rejecting a foreign policy that turns its back on the major issues of our times.
In a nation where nearly one-half of all households have firearms, the gun control issue has never been more relevant. This study examines the arguments used by advocates and opponents of gun control, identifies crucial factual assumptions behind the arguments, and addresses these assumptions using evidence from the best research.
This ground-breaking resource is for anyone, of any race or heritage, who stands ready to make progress toward equity and justice, by offering a creative vision and a practical blueprint for an inclusive, multicultural future for all those involved in conflict transformation, community mediation, and peace building.
This ground-breaking resource is for anyone, of any race or heritage, who stands ready to make progress toward equity and justice, by offering a creative vision and a practical blueprint for an inclusive, multicultural future for all those involved in conflict transformation, community mediation, and peace building.
Bridging the Theory-Practice Divide in International Relations-edited by Daniel Maliniak, Susan Peterson, Ryan Powers, and Michael J. Tierney-analyzes the gap between knowledge produced by IR scholars and what policy practitioners find relevant, providing guidance on how and when to bridge the gap.
Bridging the Theory-Practice Divide in International Relations-edited by Daniel Maliniak, Susan Peterson, Ryan Powers, and Michael J. Tierney-analyzes the gap between knowledge produced by IR scholars and what policy practitioners find relevant, providing guidance on how and when to bridge the gap.
Making Peace and Doing Justice After Civil Conflict, Expanded and Update
This work asks "How do newly democratic nations put to rest the conflicts of the past?" Beginning with an examination of reconciliation on the political and psychological level, it covers the quality of peace as it has been forged in the civil conflicts in Rwanda, South Africa, Chile and Guatemala.
The Peace Movement At American State Universities in the Vietnam Era
Examines the change in the role of campus life in the 1960s and early 1970s and the way in which the peace campaign became a national movement. The work studies how outside forces affected the campus antiwar protests and illustrates the depth of the anguish over US involvement in Vietnam.
Catholic Social Teaching, Liberalism, and Conservatism
The book analyzes the two major American political ideologies-liberalism and conservatism-to determine how well each conforms to the basic principles of Catholic social teaching. It examines major thematic areas of the general socio-political philosophy and public policy views of each ideology and carefully compares them to Catholic principles.
A Constructive Theological Ethic of Soulcraft and Statecraft
Reconceiving politics in a theological framework, Christianity, Politics, and the Predicament of Evil argues for a constructive ethic that affirms both soulcraft and statecraft as essential elements of Christians' political vocation and specifies the appropriate terms of their relationship.
Civil Wars in Africa, edited by Kelechi A. Kalu and George Klay Kieh, Jr., examines civil conflicts throughout various African countries. They argue that civil wars in Africa are by-products of the contradictions and crises engendered by the post-colonial state-building and nation-building projects in Africa. With few exceptions, the post-colonial ......
This edited collection explores how contemporary western European film can reflect on and contribute to discourses of conflict and survival in the new century.
Constructive Conflicts provides a powerful analytical and empirical framework for analyzing and intervening in large-scale social and political conflicts. Readers follow conflicts as they emerge, escalate, de-escalate, become settled, and sometimes re-emerge, learning how destructive cycles of contention can be disrupted and even reversed.
Constructive Conflicts provides a powerful analytical and empirical framework for analyzing and intervening in large-scale social and political conflicts. Readers follow conflicts as they emerge, escalate, de-escalate, become settled, and sometimes re-emerge, learning how destructive cycles of contention can be disrupted and even reversed.
Will there be war with China? This book provides the most complete and accurate assessment of the probability of conflict between the United States and the rising Asian superpower. Equally important, it lays out an in-depth analysis of the possible pathways to peace. Written like a geopolitical detective story, the narrative encourages reader ......
The Contested Politics of Post-Conflict Northern Ireland and Bosnia and
Offers a comparative study based on original readings of the peace agreements and of first-hand and academic accounts of the peacebuilding processes and post-conflict politics, up to the present period.
Presents all the information practitioners and scholars need to stay current in the field, with contributions by researchers, trainers and practitioners addressing a full range of essential topics, detailing the development of the theory behind mediation practice.
This interdisciplinary book explores how the policy goal of gender equality operates in arguably the most masculinist area of politics: peace and security. Gender equality was set on the international peace and security agenda with the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2000 and the inception of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) ......
This book explores the trajectory of gender equality in institutions' engagement with the Women, Peace, and Security agenda at the intersection of global, regional, and national governance, shedding light on opportunities and challenges for a meaningful change in peace and security.
Receiving Pope Francis's Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons
Forbidden moves beyond the conceptualization of a ban on nuclear weapons to the implementation of the Pope's teachings, the first pontiff to condemn possession. This book interweaves the essential witness of survivors of nuclear attacks and test explosions with the voices of leaders who provide needed context for Pope Francis's condemnation.
This interdisciplinary collection brings Gandhi's ideas into conversation with issues seldom discussed in Gandhi studies. The contributors engage with cross-cultural and cross-historical time periods, contributing in important ways to the ever-expanding field of Gandhi studies.
Twenty-Five Years of Fighting for Equality, Secularism, and Freedom Of
A central player in every major church-state-separation battle for decades, the Rev. Barry W. Lynn understands the complexities of this divisive issue like few others. As a long-time activist, a civil rights lawyer, and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he offers a unique perspective and a wealth of experience on church-state ......
This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Multinational Peacekeeping contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries peacekeeping operations, people, organizations, countries, and events associated with peacekeeping.
