Synopsis: Why do many U.S. residents, Catholics and Catholic
leaders among them, too often fall short of adequately challenging
the use of violence in U.S. policy? The opportunities and
developments in approaches to peacemaking have been growing at a
significant rate. However, violent methods continue to hold
significant sway in U.S. policy and society as the commonly assumed
way to "peace." Even when community organizers, policymakers,
members of Catholic leadership, and academics sincerely search for
alternatives to violence, they too often think about nonviolence as
primarily a rule or a strategy. Catholic Social Teaching has been
moving toward transcending the limits of these approaches, but it
still has significant room for growth. In order to contribute to
this growth and to impact U.S. policy, McCarthy draws on Jesus,
Gandhi, Ghaffar Khan, and King to offer a virtue-based approach to
nonviolent peacemaking with a corresponding set of core practices.
This approach is also set in conversation with aspects of human
rights discourse to increase its possible impact on U.S. policy. As
a whole, Becoming Nonviolent Peacemakers offers an important
challenge to contemporary accounts of peacemaking in the U.S.
Endorsements: "Many believe, myself among them, the world must
change its violent course if humanity is to survive and go forward.
The opposite of violence, and its cure, is nonviolence; but the
term is still shrouded in confusion. This well-researched book does
a masterful job making nonviolence--arguably the most important
principle we can learn--available to millions of readers."
--Michael Nagler, Professor Emeritus, University of California
Berkeley "Using the time-tested virtue approach to ethics, McCarthy
helps us cultivate the dispositions, practices, and rules needed
for nonviolent peace-building. But then, with virtue's ability to
culturally adapt, he engages Hindu, Christian, and Muslim models,
and proposes a contemporary, realistic vision. He translates this
vision into the language of human rights so as to give it even more
universal appeal. The result is an interreligious, comprehensive
project of a new world order. A truly timely and engaging work "
--James F. Keenan, Boston College "This is an excellent book. It is
highly original and intellectually precise, while remaining
grounded in the Christian life and passion for social change.
McCarthy cuts across standard divisions of just war theory and
pacifism to create a public and political peacemaking ethic of
virtue for an era in which Christian action for global justice is
not optional." --Lisa Cahill, Boston College "McCarthy's deep
discussion of the challenges of nonviolent peacemaking should be
essential reading for all would-be peacemakers and, more
especially, for all those who still see lethal force as the answer
to international problems." --Alan Goulty, Former British
Ambassador to Sudan Author Biography: Eli Sasaran McCarthy is
Adjunct Professor of Justice and Peace Studies at Georgetown
University. He has published an essay in Peace Movements Worldwide,
along with articles in the Peace Studies Journal and the Journal of
Political Theology.
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