Peace Studies between Tradition and Innovation

Peace Studies between Tradition and Innovation
Title Peace Studies between Tradition and Innovation PDF eBook
Author Randall Amster
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 320
Release 2015-02-05
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1443875090

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The field of peace and conflict studies is rich in secular and faith traditions. At the same time, as a relatively new and interdisciplinary field, it is ripe with innovation. This volume, the first in the series Peace Studies: Edges and Innovations, edited by Michael Minch and Laura Finley of the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA), is edited by top Canadian and US scholars in the field and captures both those traditions and innovations, focusing on enduring questions, organizing and activism, peace pedagogy, and practical applications. From the historical focus on disarmament, ending warfare and reducing militarism to the civil rights, women’s rights, and environmental movements, peace activists and pedagogues have long been important agents of social change. Authored by US and Canadian academics, educators, and activists, the chapters in this book demonstrate, how scholars and practitioners in the field are using the important knowledge, skills and values of their foremothers and forefathers to address new issues, integrate new technologies, and make new partners in their efforts to create a more just and humane world.

Innovations in Peace and Security in Africa

Innovations in Peace and Security in Africa
Title Innovations in Peace and Security in Africa PDF eBook
Author Joseph Adero Ngala
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 241
Release
Genre
ISBN 3031390431

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Ethnographic Peace Research

Ethnographic Peace Research
Title Ethnographic Peace Research PDF eBook
Author Gearoid Millar
Publisher Springer
Pages 291
Release 2017-11-24
Genre Political Science
ISBN 3319655639

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This volume calls for an empirical extension of the “local turn” within peace research. Building on insights from conflict transformation, gender studies, critical International Relations and Anthropology, the contributions critique existing peace research methods as affirming unequal power, marginalizing local communities, and stripping the peace kept of substantive agency and voice. By incorporating scholars from these various fields the volume pushes for more locally grounded, ethnographic and potentially participatory approaches. While recognizing that any Ethnographic Peace Research (EPR) agenda must incorporate a variety of methodologies, the volume nonetheless paves a clear path for the much needed empirical turn within the local turn literature.

Peace and Justice Studies

Peace and Justice Studies
Title Peace and Justice Studies PDF eBook
Author Margaret Groarke
Publisher Routledge
Pages 341
Release 2018-10-26
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1351170589

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This book explores the interdisciplinary arena of peace studies and shows how the field has evolved and continues to grow and change. Dedicated to bringing students face to face with the grave injustices and violence in the contemporary world, it equips them with the tools to work for transformational change. Informed by an intersectional perspective, scholar-activist authors probe contested terrain, including teaching social justice from a place of privilege, decolonializing pedagogies, and community organizing. Games and simulations, storytelling, experiential integrated learning, and other pedagogical approaches are employed to encourage critical thinking, empathy, optimism, and activism.

The Art of Peace

The Art of Peace
Title The Art of Peace PDF eBook
Author Juliana Geran Pilon
Publisher Routledge
Pages 414
Release 2017-07-05
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1351485717

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Sun Tzu, author of 'The Art of War', believed that the acme of leadership consists in figuring out how to subdue the enemy with the least amount of fighting a fact that America's Founders also understood, and practiced with astonishing success. For it to work, however, a people must possess both the ability and the willingness to use all available instruments of power in peace as much as in war. US foreign policy has increasingly neglected the instruments of civilian power and become overly dependent on lethal solutions to conflict. The steep rise in unconventional conflict has increased the need for diplomatic and other non-hard power tools of statecraft. The United States can no longer afford to sit on the proverbial three-legged national security stool ("military, diplomacy, development"), where one leg is a lot longer than either of the other two, almost forgetting altogether the fourth leg information, especially strategic communication and public diplomacy. The United States isn't so much becoming militarized as DE civilianized. According to Sun Tzu, self-knowledge is as important as knowledge of one's enemy: "if you know neither yourself nor the enemy, you will succumb in every battle." Alarmingly, the United States is deficient on both counts. And though we can stand to lose a few battles, the stakes of losing the war itself in this age of nuclear proliferation are too high to contemplate.

Multidimensional Peacebuilding

Multidimensional Peacebuilding
Title Multidimensional Peacebuilding PDF eBook
Author Wendy Kroeker
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 261
Release 2021-01-15
Genre History
ISBN 1793608997

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Attentive to intersecting issues of colonialism, political marginalization, and ethnic diversity, this book examines the crucial role that local actors play in working towards sustainable peace in Mindanao, Philippines. Interviewees include both those involved in the formal peace process between the Bangsamoro people and the government of the Philippines, as well as those who have worked more broadly in building a local culture of peace through activities such as education, dialogues, awareness-building, or social reconciliation. This book provides provocative insights for multidimensional peacebuilding strategies in conflict-impacted communities, regions, and nations.

Peace and Social Justice Education on Campus

Peace and Social Justice Education on Campus
Title Peace and Social Justice Education on Campus PDF eBook
Author Luigi Esposito
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 325
Release 2015-10-28
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1443885657

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This book provides important reflections by and for peace and social justice educators working on college campuses. Importantly, it also integrates the voices of students. More than a feel-good compilation of success stories, however, it illustrates the complexities inherent in teaching and learning about and for peace and social justice. Chapters in the book provide critical assessments of institutions, pedagogies, and practices, making visible the messy but very real spaces in which education and learning occur. Written by faculty and students from many disciplinary areas, the contributions discuss in-class and outside-of-class actions, providing a deeper understanding of best practices and challenges faced by both groups. Albeit in different ways that are reflective of the many different pedagogical approaches to peace and justice education, each chapter integrates ideas, concepts, and reflections from both faculty and students. The conclusion and appendix offer recommendations for future and additional resources for college and university faculty and students interested in learning more about peace and social justice.