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Unique in that its primary focus is an analysis of ethical and
philosophical dimensions of the pandemic’s impact on sport.
Written by a team of accomplished international scholars who work
in the area of the philosophy of sport.
Unique in that its primary focus is an analysis of ethical and
philosophical dimensions of the pandemic's impact on sport. Written
by a team of accomplished international scholars who work in the
area of the philosophy of sport.
Series Information: War and Society
Although war and physical violence may seem inevitable, societies from around the world prove differently. This collection of ethnographies discusses how non-violent values and conflict resolution strategies can help to create and maintain peace. Societies like the Hopi of Northern Arizona, the Nubians of Egypt and the Zapotec of Mexico serve as models of peacemaking.
This volume's central purpose is to provide a clearly written,
scholarly exploration of cultural variation regarding conflict
resolution and in so doing, highlight certain alternatives to
violence. It presents an interdisciplinary examination of how
conflicts are perceived and handled in a variety of cultural
settings. Drawing on data and models from anthropology, psychology,
and political science, the chapters analyze conflict resolution
across the societal spectrum, including cases from Western and
non-Western traditions, complex and tribal societies, and violent
and non-violent cultures. While demonstrating the extremely
important impact of culture on conflict resolution processes, the
book does not solely emphasize cultural specificity.
Rather--through introductory chapters, section introductions, and a
concluding chapter--the volume editors draw attention to
cross-cultural patterns in an attempt to further the search for
more general conflict principles.
An explicit message throughout the book is that alternatives to
violence exist. The volume demonstrates that at various
levels--from the interpersonal to the international-- conflicts can
be handled in ways that cause far less pain and destruction than
violence. Chapters by psychologists discuss social and cognitive
processes for facilitating the learning of alternatives to violence
among children and youth. Anthropology contributors explore
mechanisms for dealing with social conflict which allow some
cultures to remain relatively peaceful and consider implications of
their work for reducing violence in other societies. Chapters by
former President of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, and by political
scientists examine how non-violent political solutions can be
employed as alternatives to warfare and violent resistence.
This volume's central purpose is to provide a clearly written,
scholarly exploration of cultural variation regarding conflict
resolution and in so doing, highlight certain alternatives to
violence. It presents an interdisciplinary examination of how
conflicts are perceived and handled in a variety of cultural
settings. Drawing on data and models from anthropology, psychology,
and political science, the chapters analyze conflict resolution
across the societal spectrum, including cases from Western and
non-Western traditions, complex and tribal societies, and violent
and non-violent cultures. While demonstrating the extremely
important impact of culture on conflict resolution processes, the
book does not solely emphasize cultural specificity.
Rather--through introductory chapters, section introductions, and a
concluding chapter--the volume editors draw attention to
cross-cultural patterns in an attempt to further the search for
more general conflict principles.
An explicit message throughout the book is that alternatives to
violence exist. The volume demonstrates that at various
levels--from the interpersonal to the international-- conflicts can
be handled in ways that cause far less pain and destruction than
violence. Chapters by psychologists discuss social and cognitive
processes for facilitating the learning of alternatives to violence
among children and youth. Anthropology contributors explore
mechanisms for dealing with social conflict which allow some
cultures to remain relatively peaceful and consider implications of
their work for reducing violence in other societies. Chapters by
former President of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, and by political
scientists examine how non-violent political solutions can be
employed as alternatives to warfare and violent resistence.
Have humans always waged war? Is warring an ancient evolutionary
adaptation or a relatively recent behavior-and what does that tell
us about human nature? In War, Peace, and Human Nature, editor
Douglas P. Fry brings together leading experts in such fields as
evolutionary biology, archaeology, anthropology, and primatology to
answer fundamental questions about peace, conflict, and human
nature in an evolutionary context. The chapters in this book
demonstrate that humans clearly have the capacity to make war, but
since war is absent in some cultures, it cannot be viewed as a
human universal. And counter to frequent presumption the actual
archaeological record reveals the recent emergence of war. It does
not typify the ancestral type of human society, the nomadic forager
band, and contrary to widespread assumptions, there is little
support for the idea that war is ancient or an evolved adaptation.
Views of human nature as inherently warlike stem not from the facts
but from cultural views embedded in Western thinking. Drawing upon
evolutionary and ecological models; the archaeological record of
the origins of war; nomadic forager societies past and present; the
value and limitations of primate analogies; and the evolution of
agonism, including restraint; the chapters in this
interdisciplinary volume refute many popular generalizations and
effectively bring scientific objectivity to the culturally and
historically controversial subjects of war, peace, and human
nature.
This volume appears at a time when the prospects for banishing the
threat of nuclear annihilation are brighter than at any time since
the first atomic device exploded over the desert at Alamogordo. The
last few years have seen an ex traordinary change in the climate of
East-West relations. The programme of political and economic reform
which President Gorbachev initiated in the Soviet Union and which
is now spreading throughout most of Eastern Europe has been
parallelled by serious efforts to reach agreement on measures for
conventional and nuclear disarmament. This has led to new hope that
international peace and security can at last be built upon the firm
foundation of justice, respect for in ternational law and a
determination to approach problems in a spirit of genuine
co-operation rather than one of distrust and confrontation. This
new climate encourages us in the belief that the obvious common
sense of preventing the further spread of nuclear weapons will come
to be shared by all nations. At the same time, we have to recognize
two very disturbing facts, which imply that there can be no
slackening of our efforts to strengthen the non-proliferation
regime."
Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and
social options in today's world, showing how we can build societies
that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring,
and creativity. It brings together findings-largely overlooked-from
the natural and social sciences debunking the popular idea that we
are hard-wired for selfishness, war, rape, and greed. Its
groundbreaking new approach reveals connections between disturbing
trends like climate change denial and regressions to strongman
rule. Moving past right vs. left, religious vs. secular, Eastern
vs. Western, and other familiar categories that do not include our
formative parent-child and gender relations, it looks at where
societies fall on the partnership-domination scale. On one end is
the domination system that ranks man over man, man over woman, race
over race, and man over nature. On the other end is the more
peaceful, egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable partnership
system. Nurturing Our Humanity explores how behaviors, values, and
socio-economic institutions develop differently in these two
environments, documents how this impacts nothing less than how our
brains develop, examines cultures from this new perspective
(including societies that for millennia oriented toward
partnership), and proposes actions supporting the contemporary
movement in this more life-sustaining and enhancing direction. It
shows how through today's ever more fearful, frenzied, and
greed-driven technologies of destruction and exploitation, the
domination system may lead us to an evolutionary dead end. A more
equitable and sustainable way of life is biologically possible and
culturally attainable: we can change our course.
Have humans always waged war? Is warring an ancient evolutionary
adaptation or a relatively recent behavior-and what does that tell
us about human nature? In War, Peace, and Human Nature, editor
Douglas P. Fry brings together leading experts in evolutionary
biology, archaeology, anthropology, and primatology to answer
fundamental questions about peace, conflict, and human nature in an
evolutionary context. The essays in this book demonstrate that
humans clearly have the capacity to make war, but since war is
absent in some cultures, it cannot be viewed as a human universal.
And the archaeological record reveals the recent emergence of war.
It does not typify the ancestral type of human society, the nomadic
forager band, and contrary to widespread assumptions, there is
little support for the idea that war is ancient or an evolved
adaptation. This book shows that views of human nature as
inherently warlike stem not from the facts but from cultural views
embedded in Western ways of thinking. Drawing upon evolutionary and
ecological models; the archaeological record of the origins of war;
nomadic forager societies past and present; the value and
limitations of primate analogies; and the evolution of agonism and
restraint; the essays in this interdisciplinary volume refute many
popular generalizations and effectively bring scientific
objectivity to the culturally and historically controversial
subjects of war, peace, and human nature. 'This encyclopedic
collection of excellent, wide-ranging, and myth-busting essays by
renowned scholars should be required reading for anyone interested
in how we came to be who we are and the future of humankind. A
much-needed paradigm shift is in the making because of the
increased recognition that we are not inherently destructive and
competitive beings. This remarkable book will facilitate this
transition as we expand our compassion footprint and give peace the
chance it deserves. Cooperation, empathy, and peace will prevail if
we allow them to.' - Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of
Animals, Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals, and The Animal
Manifesto: Six Reasons For Expanding Our Compassion Footprint
A profoundly heartening view of human nature, Beyond War offers a
hopeful prognosis for a future without war. Douglas P. Fry
convincingly argues that our ancient ancestors were not innately
warlike--and neither are we. He points out that, for perhaps
ninety-nine percent of our history, for well over a million years,
humans lived in nomadic hunter-and-gatherer groups, egalitarian
bands where warfare was a rarity. Drawing on archaeology and
fascinating recent fieldwork on hunter-gatherer bands from around
the world, Fry debunks the idea that war is ancient and inevitable.
For instance, among Aboriginal Australians, warfare was an extreme
anomaly. Fry also points out that even today, when war seems ever
present, the vast majority of us live peaceful, nonviolent lives.
We are not as warlike as we think, and if we can learn from our
ancestors, we may be able to move beyond war to provide real
justice and security for the world.
Brings together primary texts from influential Jewish and Christian
writers, providing an accessible overview of the major issues and
movements in the Christian-Jewish dialogue. The book includes key
topics such as anti-Semitism, Jesus, Israel, women and the
Holocaust.
Der dritte und abschlieBende Band des Lehrbuches der Balneologie
und Medizinischen Klimatologie ist im ersten Teil dem Gebiet der
Medizinischen Klimatologie gewidmet. Ebenso wie dessen Ent-
wicklung nur in enger Zusammenarbeit von Arzten und Meteorolo- gen
moglich war, ist auch die vorliegende Darstellung das Ergebnis
einer Gemeinschaftsarbeit von Wissenschaftlem beider Fachgebie- teo
Gerade die Klimatherapie ist mit ihren differenzierten Behand-
lungsmoglichkeiten ein gewichtiger Beleg dafiir, daB die genaue
Kenntnis der natiirlichen Kurmittel entscheidende Grundlage fiir
die Kurortbehandlung bleiben muB. Auf die Notwendigkeit, die
medizinische Aus- und Fortbildung auf diesem Gebiet zu fOrdem, muB
auch hier wieder hingewiesen werden. Die weiteren Teile des Bandes
schildem die praktische Behand- lung der verschiedenen Krankheiten
in den Heilbadem und Kuror- ten, wobei auch die organisatorischen
Voraussetzungen und die heute besonders aktuellen
sozialmedizinischen Aspekte der Kurort- behandlung zu
beriicksichtigen waren. SchlieBlich wurde auch ein kurzer AbriB der
Geschichte der Bader- und Klimaheilkunde mit aufgenommen, schon urn
die jahrtausendealte Tradition unseres therapeutischen Fachgebietes
zur Geltung zu bringen, deren enge Verflechtung mit der
Gesamtentwicklung der Heilkunde von bedeu- tenden Medizinhistorikem
nachgezeichnet worden ist. Nach mo- demen Gesichtspunkten kann
allerdings die groBe Tradition der Kurortmedizin nicht als Beleg
fiir die Wirksamkeit ihrer Behand- lungsverfahren gewertet werden,
sie spiegelt eher das permanent an- haltende Vertrauen ihrer
Patienten.
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