Peace and Policy
The Promise of Reconciliation?: Examining Violent and Nonviolent Effects on Asian Conflicts
1st Edition
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By Chaiwat Satha-Anand
March 30, 2016
The Promise of Reconciliation? explores the relationship between violence, nonviolence, and reconciliation in societal conflicts with questions such as: In what ways does violence impact the reconciliation process that necessarily follows a cessation of deadly conflict? Would an understanding of ...
Global Visioning: Hopes and Challenges for a Common Future
1st Edition
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By Ahmed Abaddi
February 28, 2015
This volume makes the case for global visioning: the collective process of looking at a larger picture and building common ground for the future. The contributors agree that only by such a process will people be able to address mounting problems like global warming, war, terrorism, and poverty, ...
Sports, Peacebuilding and Ethics
1st Edition
By Linda M. Johnston
January 30, 2014
As this latest volume in the Peace & Policy series shows, sports can be an effective mechanism for peacebuilding, especially when incorporated into conflict-resolution programs. Such programs have been designed to bring children together in post-conflict situations with an ultimate goal of reducing...
Protecting the Sacred, Creating Peace in Asia-Pacific
1st Edition
By Chaiwat Satha-Anand
February 15, 2013
Using case studies from the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Basin, this book examines the global trend of violence against religious places and figures. The contributors believe attacks on sacred places to be particularly damaging to peace and harmony because of the ...
Risk and Uncertainty: Understanding and Dialogue in the 21st Century
1st Edition
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By Olivier Urbain
November 15, 2012
Conflict transformation requires, at minimum, a capacity to listen and respond constructively to those who are being hurt intentionally or unintentionally by others. This compendium attempts to understand the ways in which borders and boundaries are manifestations of less visible dynamics in ...
Music and Solidarity: Questions of Universality, Consciousness, and Connection
1st Edition
By Felicity Laurence
May 15, 2011
The philosopher Christopher Small suggests that musical meanings are concerned with relationships, both with other human beings and with the world, and that music functions as a means of exploration, affirmation, and celebration of those relationships. If members of different social groups have ...
Ethical Transformations for a Sustainable Future: Peace and Policy
1st Edition
By Deva Temple
January 15, 2011
It has become increasingly apparent that humanity's complex social, political, and economic systems are incompatible with the finite capacity of the Earth to replenish resources and absorb wastes. If the planet is to continue to be habitable for the myriad web of other creatures that make life ...
Peace Journalism in Times of War: Volume 13: Peace and Policy
1st Edition
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By Majid Tehranian
February 28, 2009
Amid the ongoing and volatile debate over the nature and potential of peace journalism, this volume presents visionary insights from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. The significant empirical studies included here will provide foundation data for communication studies. The ...
The Center Holds: UN Reform for 21st-Century Challenges
1st Edition
By Nadia Mizner
April 15, 2008
The United Nations remains a unique institutional hope for addressing and resolving the world's major environmental, developmental, and humanitarian problems. It representsglobal aspirations for a just and peaceful world by inspiring the political imagination of individuals and collectivities. But,...
Learning to Seek: Globalization, Governance, and the Futures of Higher Education
1st Edition
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By James A. Dator
September 30, 2006
The accelerating technological transformation in learn- ing has necessitated an ability to search and differentiate among the one billion web pages, libraries, databases, books, newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and opinion columns available online. This volume focuses on the ...
Globalization and Identity: Cultural Diversity, Religion, and Citizenship
1st Edition
By B. Lum
February 15, 2006
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, globalization and identity have emerged as the most critical challenges to world peace. This volume of Peace & Policy addresses the overarching question, "What are the effects of globalization in the areas of culture, ethnic diversity, religion, and ...