|
Showing 1 - 4 of
4 matches in All Departments
Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies
provides a critical analysis of faith and religious institutions in
peacebuilding practice and pedagogy. The work captures the
synergistic relationships among faith traditions and how multiple
approaches to conflict transformation and peacebuilding result in a
creative process that has the potential to achieve a more detailed
view of peace on earth, containing breadth as well as depth.
Library and bookstore shelves are filled with critiques of the
negative impacts of religion in conflict scenarios. Peace on Earth:
The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies offers an
alternate view that suggests religious organizations play a more
complex role in conflict than a simply negative one. Faith-based
organizations, and their workers, are often found on the frontlines
of conflict throughout the world, conducting conflict management
and resolution activities as well as advancing peacebuilding
initiatives.
Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies
provides a critical analysis of faith and religious institutions in
peacebuilding practice and pedagogy. The work captures the
synergistic relationships among faith traditions and how multiple
approaches to conflict transformation and peacebuilding result in a
creative process that has the potential to achieve a more detailed
view of peace on earth, containing breadth as well as depth.
Library and bookstore shelves are filled with critiques of the
negative impacts of religion in conflict scenarios. Peace on Earth:
The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies offers an
alternate view that suggests religious organizations play a more
complex role in conflict than a simply negative one. Faith-based
organizations, and their workers, are often found on the frontlines
of conflict throughout the world, conducting conflict management
and resolution activities as well as advancing peacebuilding
initiatives.
Twenty years post-independence Ukraine remains split, still
floundering toward viable democracy. Active participation in civic
affairs required for democracy is unfamiliar for most Ukrainian
citizens, having internalized centuries of divisive oppression
under a series of authoritarian regimes. Democracy-building and
peace-building require participant agency and voice; rising out of
oppression, people often need support to speak about and transform
their lived experiences. Peacebuilding with Women in Ukraine: Using
Narrative to Envision a Common Future, by Maureen P. Flaherty,
explores the roles women's shared narrative, dialogue, and
group-visioning play in the support of personal empowerment and
bridge building between diverse communities. Despite participants'
initial beliefs that their regional counterparts shared little in
common with them, in the process of telling their personal life
stories women were able to reflect upon their own values and
strengths, and with this rooting, they were then able to reach out
to others. Rather than looking for differences, participants sought
ways to express a shared vision for an inclusive, functional,
peace-building future for themselves, their families, and Ukraine
as a whole. Peacebuilding with Women in Ukraine is a model for
emancipatory social action and social change, while the women's
stories offer a window into the formative years and present-day
lives of eighteen women born and raised in the Soviet Union. This
study is a unique contribution to peace studies and to the history
and building of a country that has most often had its history
written for it.
This captivating book presents innovative answers to the question:
why storytelling? Each chapter represents leading edge narrative
research designs from Arthur V. Mauro Institute for Peace and
Justice in central Canada, one of the world's leading academic
programs for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS), and a major
contributor to PACS scholarship. The authors are candid and offer
inspiration for other scholars seeking groundbreaking ideas for
their own research design while offering profound expansions to the
current PACS literature. The scholarship reflects a diversity of
ideas, passions, approaches, disciplinary roots, and topic areas.
Each chapter explores different and critical issues in the field of
PACS through various forms of storytelling, while providing recent
original research designs for the future development of the field
and the education of its practitioners and academics. This volume,
co-edited by three of the early graduates of the program, presents
and explores a number of these issues across the broad spectrum of
Peace and Conflict Studies. Contributors to the book are recognized
scholars and practitioners in their respective fields. The book has
a wide audience, targeting those particularly interested in
tackling and understanding old conflicts in new ways, and for those
seeking to learn at the growing edges of PACS, at the
undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels.
|
|