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Thirty-four outstanding scholars write about the etymological meaning and the religious, legal and political connotations of the concept of 'peace'. They provide firm evidence to show how adopting a multi-faceted approach to 'peace' could ultimately contribute to the search for a more authentic understanding of 'peace' across the world stage.

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Thirty-four outstanding scholars write about the etymological meaning and the religious, legal and political connotations of the concept of 'peace'. They provide firm evidence to show how adopting a multi-faceted approach to 'peace' could ultimately contribute to the search for a more authentic understanding of 'peace' across the world stage.

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This is the most comprehensive volume on peace studies ever to be attempted - nothing else on the market compares in either scope or breadth of international coverage

Author Biography

ASTIER M. ALMEDOM is Director of the International Resilience Program at the Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University, USA.IKURO ANZAI is honorary director of the Kyoto Museum for World Peace at Ritsumeikan University, Japan.ALEV ÇAKIR is interested in peace and conflict research, international development, migration and integration and Alevilik.JOSEFINA ECHAVARRÃ?A A. lectures at the UNESCO Chair and MA Program for Peace Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and at the MA in Latin American Studies, University of Vienna, Austria.MARC H. ELLIS is Professor of Jewish Studies and of History, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University, USA.GUSTAVO ESTEVA is a grassroots activist, a public intellectual and an independent writer.MUNIR FASHEH established the Tamer Institute for Community Education in 1989 in Palestine, and established and directed the Arab Education Forum from 1997 until 2007 at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.VICTORIA FONTAN is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University for Peace, Costa Rica.JOHAN GALTUNG is Director of Transcend, founder of the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Norway, and Professor at the University of Hawaii.ARUN GANDHI is founder and President of the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute, USA.BELACHEW GEBREWOLD is Lecturer of International Relations at Helmut-Schmidt University, University of theFederal Armed Forces in Hamburg, Germany, and teaches at the UNESCO Chair for Peace Studies, Innsbruck, Austria.ARTURO GUERRERO is Professor of Communication and Pedagogy, and works with young Mazatecs and Mixtecs.AURANGZEB HANEEF studied at Harvard Divinity School, USA.PETER HORSLEY works with indigenous communities on sustainability projects in New Zealand and the South Pacific.DANIELA INGRUBER is staff-member of the UNESCO Chair for Peace Studies and Lecturer at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.ELIDA KRISTINE UNDRUM JACOBSEN is a researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Norway.HANNES KALISCH is a member of the Enlhet Community of the Chaco in Paraguay.MARTINA KALLER-DIETRICH is Associate Professor of Global History at the University of Vienna, Austria.KAM-POR YU is a moral philosopher and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.KARLHEINZ KOPPE is former Chair of the German Society for Peace Studies, former Secretary of the European Peace Research Association, former Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association and visiting professor at the University of Münster, Germany.NORBERT KOPPENSTEINER is Program Coordinator of the MA in Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation, and Research and Publications Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair for Peace Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.SAMRAT SCHMIEM KUMAR is Lecturerof Peace and Conflict Studies, Oslo University College, Pondicherry, India.PAT LAUDERDALE is Professor in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, USA.SYED SIKANDER MEHDI is Convenor of the Peace and Cultural Studies Project, in Karachi and former chair of the Department of International Relations and former registrar of Karachi University, Pakistan.BEATRIZ MOLINA is Professor at the Department of Semitic Studies and director of the Institute of Peace and Conflicts at the University of Granada, Spain.FRANCISCO A. MUÃ'OZ is Professor of History at the Institute of Peace and Conflicts at the University of Granada, Spain.KOFI ASARE OPOKU is Visiting Professor of Religion and Co-Chair of Africana Studies, Yale University, USA.UZMA REHMAN has a Ph.D. from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.GRIMALDO RENGIFO V. founded the PRATEC (Proyecto Andino de Tecnologías Campesinas / Andean Project of Peasant Technologies).AMADOU LAMINE SARR is Associate Professor of History at the University of Vienna, Austria.SWAMI VEDA BHARATI is a travelling lecturer and Spiritual Guide since 1947. He holds the title of High Monk in the Swami Order of Monks and has worked as international Meditation Guide with 50 meditation groups around the world.KARMA LEKSHE TSOMO is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego, USA.ROBERT VACHON is co-founderand lifetime Director of the Journal InterCulture at the Intercultural Institute of Montreal (IIM), Canada.NIGEL YOUNG is Professor Emeritus in the Sociology Department and former director of the Peace Studies Program at Colgate University, USA.

Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction; W.Dietrich PART I: PEACE CONCEPTS IN EUROPE Beyond the Gates of Eden: Trans-rational Peaces; W.Dietrich Peace: The European Narrative; K.Koppe Pax: A Mediterranean Perspective; F.Muñoz & B.Molina Peace: A Western European Perspective; N.Young Friðr: A Northern European Perspective; E.K.Undrum Jacobsen PART II: PEACE CONCEPTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST Shalom: A Jewish Perspective; M.H.Ellis Shalom/Salaam: A Personal Palestinian Perspective; M.Fasheh Salaam: A Muslim Perspective; A.Haneef Salaam: A Sufi Perspective; U.Rehman Salaam: An Alevilik Perspective; A.Çak?r PART III: PEACE CONCEPTS IN SOUTH AND EAST ASIA Shanti: An Indian Perspective; S.V.Bharati Shi wa: A Vajrayana Buddhist Perspective; K.L.Tsomo He Ping: A Confucian Perspective; K.-P.Yu Haiwa: A Shinto Perspective; I.Anzai Buddhism and the World Peace; J.Galtung PART IV: MAORI AND NATIVE AMERICAN PEACE CONCEPTS He Taura Whiri: A Maori Perspective; P.Horsley Skennen: A North American Indian Perspective; P.Lauderdale Kayanerekowa: A Mohawk Perspective; R.Vachon Guelaguetza and Tu Chha'ia: A Zapotec Perspective of What Others Call Friendship; G.Esteva & A.Guerrero Thaq: An Andean-Amazonian Perspective; G.Rengifo V. Nengelaasekhammalhkoo: An Enlhet Perspective; H.Kalisch PART V: PEACE CONCEPTS IN AFRICA Asomdwoe: A West African Perspective; K.A.Opoku T'ùmmu: An East African Perspective; B.Gebrewold African Salaam; A.L.Sarr PART VI: PEACE THINKERS Mahatma Ghandi's Concept of Peace: A Grandson's Perspective; A.Gandhi Ghaffar Khan: Gautama Buddha of Hashtnagar; S.S.Mehdi The Inward Revolution: Aurobindo Ghose and Jiddu Krishnamurti; S.S.Kumar Peaces, a Gift of Grace, Turned into Modern Horror: Ivan Illich Visionary of the Twentieth Century; M.Kaller-Dietrich Pagans and Nomads: The Postmodern Peaces of Jean-François Lyotard and Gilles Deleuze; N.Koppensteiner NgügI wa Thiong'o: Listening for Peace and Resilience in Africa from Makerere 1962 to Asmara 2000; A.M.Almedon Intercultural Inspiration:The Life and Work of Raimon Panikkar; G.Esteva Gregory Bateson: A Practitioners' Perspective; V.Fontan Final Remarks; J.Echavarría, D.Ingruber & N.Koppensteiner Index

Review

"No other book of peace studies provides such a rich, in depth, and wonderfully interactive conversation about our many understandings and lived cultural etymologies around a single word [ ] An extraordinary balance and contribution to a field overly dominated by narrow academic definitions, a must for our classes and bookshelves." - John Paul Lederach, Kroc Institute University of Notre Dame, USA"A festival of epistemologies, ideas, and philosophies, one will find much to stimulate their thinking in this book, not only about the diverse and multitude philosophies of peace but also about cultural diversity and interculturalism. It is an invaluable and indispensable contribution to peace studies and social sciences and philosophy in general." - Alberto G. Gomes, La Trobe University, Australia"While firmly rooted in the scholarly field of peace and conflict research, this book takes our understanding of peace as a value, as a state of mind and as a process to another level [ ] The Handbook is refreshingly readable and will intellectually and emotionally re-energise and inspire all who read it. An outstanding achievement." - Tom Woodhouse, University of Bradford, UK"Dietrich and his team succeed in allowing readers, who compare diverse ways of making peaces, to elaborate their own reflections attentive to a reciprocal interpellation between different wisdoms, cultures and beliefs [ ] The book does not 'prescribe' to readers how they should think about peace, but opens the possibility to elaborate in an elicitive manner, from the background of their own 'bank of social knowledge' the diverse ways to transform conflicts through peaceful means." - Vicent Martínez Guzmán, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain

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ASTIER M. ALMEDOM is Director of the International Resilience Program at the Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University, USA. IKURO ANZAI is honorary director of the Kyoto Museum for World Peace at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. ALEV AaAKIR is interested in peace and conflict research, international development, migration and integration and Alevilik. JOSEFINA ECHAVARRAEAiA A. lectures at the UNESCO Chair and MA Program for Peace Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and at the MA in Latin American Studies, University of Vienna, Austria. MARC H. ELLIS is Professor of Jewish Studies and of History, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University, USA. GUSTAVO ESTEVA is a grassroots activist, a public intellectual and an independent writer. MUNIR FASHEH established the Tamer Institute for Community Education in 1989 in Palestine, and established and directed the Arab Education Forum from 1997 until 2007 at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. VICTORIA FONTAN is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University for Peace, Costa Rica. JOHAN GALTUNG is Director of Transcend, founder of the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Norway, and Professor at the University of Hawaii. ARUN GANDHI is founder and President of the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute, USA. BELACHEW GEBREWOLD is Lecturer of International Relations at Helmut-Schmidt University, University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, Germany, and teaches at the UNESCO Chair for Peace Studies, Innsbruck, Austria. ARTURO GUERRERO is Professor of Communication and Pedagogy, and works with young Mazatecs and Mixtecs. AURANGZEB HANEEF studied at Harvard Divinity School, USA. PETER HORSLEY works with indigenous communities on sustainability projects in New Zealand and the South Pacific. DANIELA INGRUBER is staff-member of the UNESCO Chair for Peace Studies and Lecturer at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. ELIDA KRISTINE UNDRUM JACOBSEN is a researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Norway. HANNES KALISCH is a member of the Enlhet Community of the Chaco in Paraguay. MARTINA KALLER-DIETRICH is Associate Professor of Global History at the University of Vienna, Austria. KAM-POR YU is a moral philosopher and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. KARLHEINZ KOPPE is former Chair of the German Society for Peace Studies, former Secretary of the European Peace Research Association, former Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association and visiting professor at the University of Munster, Germany. NORBERT KOPPENSTEINER is Program Coordinator of the MA in Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation, and Research and Publications Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair for Peace Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. SAMRAT SCHMIEM KUMAR is Lecturer of Peace and Conflict Studies, Oslo University College, Pondicherry, India. PAT LAUDERDALE is Professor in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, USA. SYED SIKANDER MEHDI is Convenor of the Peace and Cultural Studies Project, in Karachi and former chair of the Department of International Relations and former registrar of Karachi University, Pakistan. BEATRIZ MOLINA is Professor at the Department of Semitic Studies and director of the Institute of Peace and Conflicts at the University of Granada, Spain. FRANCISCO A. MUAE'OZ is Professor of History at the Institute of Peace and Conflicts at the University of Granada, Spain. KOFI ASARE OPOKU is Visiting Professor of Religion and Co-Chair of Africana Studies, Yale University, USA. UZMA REHMAN has a Ph.D. from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. GRIMALDO RENGIFO V. founded the PRATEC (Proyecto Andino de TecnologAE-as Campesinas / Andean Project of Peasant Technologies). AMADOU LAMINE SARR is Associate Professor of History at the University of Vienna, Austria. SWAMI VEDA BHARATI is a travelling lecturer and Spiritual Guide since 1947. He holds the title of High Monk in the Swami Order of Monks and has worked as international Meditation Guide with 50 meditation groups around the world. KARMA LEKSHE TSOMO is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego, USA. ROBERT VACHON is co-founder and lifetime Director of the Journal InterCulture at the Intercultural Institute of Montreal (IIM), Canada. NIGEL YOUNG is Professor Emeritus in the Sociology Department and former director of the Peace Studies Program at Colgate University, USA.

Long Description

In this ground-breaking new volume, the social function of 'peace' is explored through the prism of cultural pluralism. Prominent scholars and thinkers from more than 30 different cultures reflect on the notion of peace, and the diversity of their perspectives highlights the different cultural perceptions surrounding the meaning and scope of peace. What we understand as 'peace' is dependent on the context within which it is used. Some cultures have a multitude of notions that translate into English simply as peace, whereas an equivalent to peace in the European sense does not even exist in others. This volume shows that the concept of world peace can only be realised as a plural of 'many peaces'; an understanding of peace cannot be reached without the explicit acceptance of the many different notions of peace. In these turbulent times, there is an urgent need to explore new ways of reflecting on and facilitating the promotion of peace. Although the dominant paradigm is still the dogmatic application of a universal notion of a single peace, this approach is shown to be increasingly ineffectual and inappropriate. The editors provide firm evidence to show how adopting a multi-faceted approach to peace could ultimately contribute to the search for an authentic understanding of peace across the world stage.

Review Quote

"No other book of peace studies provides such a rich, in depth, and wonderfully interactive conversation about our many understandings and lived cultural etymologies around a single word [ ] An extraordinary balance and contribution to a field overly dominated by narrow academic definitions, a must for our classes and bookshelves." - John Paul Lederach, Kroc Institute University of Notre Dame, USA "A festival of epistemologies, ideas, and philosophies, one will find much to stimulate their thinking in this book, not only about the diverse and multitude philosophies of peace but also about cultural diversity and interculturalism. It is an invaluable and indispensable contribution to peace studies and social sciences and philosophy in general." - Alberto G. Gomes, La Trobe University, Australia "While firmly rooted in the scholarly field of peace and conflict research, this book takes our understanding of peace as a value, as a state of mind and as a process to another level [ ] The Handbook is refreshingly readable and will intellectually and emotionally re-energise and inspire all who read it. An outstanding achievement." - Tom Woodhouse, University of Bradford, UK "Dietrich and his team succeed in allowing readers, who compare diverse ways of making peaces, to elaborate their own reflections attentive to a reciprocal interpellation between different wisdoms, cultures and beliefs [ ] The book does not 'prescribe' to readers how they should think about peace, but opens the possibility to elaborate in an elicitive manner, from the background of their own 'bank of social knowledge' the diverse ways to transform conflicts through peaceful means." - Vicent Martnez Guzmn, Universitat Jaume I, Castell, Spain

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This is the most comprehensive volume on peace studies ever to be attempted nothing else on the market compares in either scope or breadth of international coverage

Details ISBN023023786X Language English ISBN-10 023023786X ISBN-13 9780230237865 Media Book Format Hardcover Author J. Echavarría Alvarez DEWEY 303.66 Year 2011 Publication Date 2011-01-11 Short Title PALGRAVE INTL HANDBK OF PEACE Pages 625 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by J. Echavarría Alvarez Subtitle A Cultural Perspective Illustrations XXX, 625 p. UK Release Date 2011-01-11 AU Release Date 2011-01-11 NZ Release Date 2011-01-11 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Alternative 9781137453235 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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