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.
Using an inductive methodology based on one key component of transitional justice-namely, truth commissions-African Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice attempts to place them within the context of other elements such as trials of human rights abusers, the strengths and weaknesses of amnesty, and the importance of memorialization.
Using an inductive methodology based on one key component of transitional justice-namely, truth commissions-African Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice attempts to place them within the context of other elements such as trials of human rights abusers, the strengths and weaknesses of amnesty, and the importance of memorialization.
American Foreign Policy and the Destruction of Secularism in the Middl
This book explores the monumental shift in the balance of power in the Middle East since the 2003 Iraq War. It investigates the manner in which American foreign policy in Iraq artificially shifted this balance and brought religious identities to the foreground.