D 10.12.2011 A Christmas gift?

A new book on Peace and Conflict Studies co-edited by Jørgen Johansen:

 

 

Routledge will publish Webel and Johansen;  Peace and Conflict Studies: A Reader on December 14th.

See: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415591294/

It is a comprehensive and intensive introduction to the key works in this growing field.

Presenting a range of theories, methodologies, and approaches to understanding peace and to transforming conflict, this edited volume contains both classic and cutting-edge contemporary analyses. The text is divided into six general sections:

PART 1 PEACE STUDIES, PEACE EDUCATION, PEACE RESEARCH AND PEACE 

1    Shaping a vision – the nature of peace studies     CONRAD G. BRUNK
2    Four major challenges facing peace education in regions of intractable conflict     GAVRIEL SALOMON
3    Peace in international relations    OLIVER P. RICHMOND
4    Global peace index   
5    Thinking peace     CHARLES P. WEBEL
6    Positive and negative peace    JOHAN GALTUNG

PART 2 PEACE THEORIES AND PEACE MOVEMENTS   

7    Eternal peace    IMMANUEL KANT
8    Address to the swedish peace congress in 1909    LEO TOLSTÓY
9    The moral equivalent of war   WILLIAM JAMES
10    The Russell–Einstein manifesto   
11    A human approach to world peace     DALAI LAMA
12    “What is peace?”     DAVID CORTRIGHT
13    ‘Introduction’ from Peace Movements in International Protest and World Politics since 1945     APRIL CARTER
14    From protest to cultural creativity: peace movements identified and revisited     NIGEL YOUNG

THE MEANINGS AND NATURE OF CONFLICT    

15    On Violence     HANNAH ARENDT
16    Geneva declaration on armed violence and development   
17    Preventing violence and reducing its impact: how development agencies can help     WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
18    Violence prevention: the evidence     WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
19    Letter to Sigmund Freud, 30 July 1932     ALBERT EINSTEIN
20    Why war?     SIGMUND FREUD
21    UNESCO: the Seville statement   
22    Psychological contributions to understanding peace and conflict     CHARLES P. WEBEL AND VIERA SOTAKOVA
23    “The evil scourge of terrorism”: reality, construction, remedy     NOAM CHOMSKY

PART 4 CONFLICT ANALYSIS, TRANSFORMATION AND PREVENTION  

24    Protagonist strategies that help end violence     LOUIS KRIESBERG AND GEAROID MILLAR
25    Nonviolent geopolitics: rationality and resistance     RICHARD FALK
26    The United States and pro-democracy revolutions in the Middle East     STEVEN ZUNES

27    How do post-conflict societies deal with a traumatic past and promote national unity and reconciliation?     ANDREW RIGBY
28    Disarmament and survival     MARC PILISUK
29    Overcoming war: the importance of constructive alternatives     CHRISTINE SCHWEITZER

PART 5 NONVIOLENT ACTION AND POLITICAL CHANGE   

30    Home rule     M. K. GANDHI
31    Pilgrimage to nonviolence     MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
32    How nonviolence works     BRIAN MARTIN
33    From dictatorship to democracy: a conceptual framework for liberation     GENE SHARP
34    Nonviolent revolutionary movements     JØRGEN JOHANSEN

PART 6  BUILDING INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURES OF PEACE 

35    A critique of robust peacekeeping in contemporary peace operations     THIERRY TARDY
36    Social entrepreneurs and constructive change: the wisdom of circumventing conflict     RYSZARD PRASKIER, ANDREJ NOWAK, PETER T. COLEMAN
37    Systems-building before state-building: on the systemic preconditions of state-building     PETER HALDÈN
38    Gender and peace: towards a gender-inclusive, holistic perspective     TONY JENKINS AND BETTY A. REARDON
39    Competing discourses on aggression and peacefulness     MAJKEN JUL SØRENSEN
40    Gender, conflict, and social capital: bonding and bridging in war in the former Yugoslavia     MAJA KORAC
41    Peaceful societies and everyday behavior     ELISE BOULDING


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Cellullar: +46 761481011
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Some of my present engagements:

Resistance Studies Magazine, http://rsmag.org/
The Transnational Foundation, www.transnational.org
Syracuse University, Strasbourg, France, http://suabroad.syr.edu/programs/location/strasbourg/
Transcend Peace University, Global, http://tpu.transcend.org/
European Peace University, Austria, www.epu.ac.at
World Peace Academy, Switzerland www.world-peace-academy.ch/
Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University, UK, www.coventry.ac.uk/peacestudy
Folkereisning Mot Krig, Norwegian Section of War Resisters' International, www.ikkevold.no
Networkers SouthNorth, http://www.networkers.org/
Culture Clinic, www.cultureclinic.org/
Skjeberg Folkehøyskole, http://www.skjeberg.fhs.no/

"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
—Jeannette Rankin, first woman member of US Congress

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