A volume in Peace Education Series Editors Jing Lin, University of
Maryland, Edward Brantmeier, James Madison University, and Ian
Harris, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Understanding Peace
Cultures is exceptionally practical as well as theoretically
grounded. As Elise Boulding tells us, culture consists of the
shared values, ideas, practices, and artifacts of a group united by
a common history. Rebecca Oxford explains thatpeace cultures are
cultures, large or small, which foster any of the dimensions of
peace - inner, interpersonal, intergroup, international,
intercultural, or ecological - and thus help transform the world.
As in her earlier book, The Language of Peace: Communicating to
Create Har-mony, Oxford contends herethat peace is a serious and
desirable option. Excellent educators help build peace cultures. In
this book, Shelley Wong and Rachel Grant reveal how highly diverse
public school classrooms serve as peace cultures, using activities
and themes founded on womanistand critical race theories. Yingji
Wang portrays a peace culture in a university classroom. Rui Ma's
model reaches out interculturally to Abraham's children: Jewish,
Christian, and Muslim youth, who share an ancient heritage.
Children's literature (Rebecca Oxford et al.) and students' own
writing (Tina Wei) spread cultures of peace. Deep traditions, such
as African performance art, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism and
Islam, give rise to peace cultures, as shown here by John Grayzel,
Sister Jewel (a colleague of Thich Nhat Hanh), Yingji Wang et al.,
and Dian Marissa et al. Peace cultures also emerge in completely
unex-pected venues, such as gangsta rap, unveiled by Charles Blake
etal., and a prison where inmates learn Lois Liggett's "spiritual
semantics." Finally, the book includes perspectives from Jerusalem
(by Lawrence Berlin) and North Korea and South Korea (by Carol
Griffiths) to help us envision - and hope for - new, transformative
peace cultures where now there is strife.
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