This book completes Wolfgang Dietrich's path-breaking trilogy of the Many Peaces; the foundation of the highly innovative approach to peace and conflict as taught and applied at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Where Volume 1 elaborated the transrational philosophy of the many peaces and Volume 2 discussed the curricular and didactic aspects of elicitive conflict transformation (ECM), Volume 3 provides principles and examples of ECM's practical application. The author drafts the easy use of ECM as a brand new method of conflict work that can be applied from both intra and interpersonal conflicts to the highest political and diplomatic level. This book would form an excellent basis for leadership and relationship training of future peace workers within the frame of elicitive conflict transformation.

"Thirty outstanding scholars write about the etymological meaning, the religious, legal and political use of the word peace. This gives astonishing insights into classical notions and hardly known interpretations of peace in their cultures. The result is a book fascinating for peace researchers and highly rewarding for a broader audience"--Provided by publisher.

International intervention on humanitarian grounds has been a contentious issue for decades. First, it pits the principle of state sovereignty against claims of universal human rights. Second, the motivations of intervening states may be open to question when avowals of moral action are arguably the fig leaf covering an assertion of power for political advantage. These questions have been salient in the context of the Balkan and African wars and U.S. policy in the Middle East. This volume undertakes a serious, systematic, and broadly international review of the issues.

In this ground-breaking volume, the social function of 'peace' is explored through the prism of cultural pluralism. Prominent scholars and thinkers from more than thirty 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.This paperback version, with new preface, reveals how adopting a multi-faceted approach to 'peace' could ultimately contribute to a more authentic understanding of peace across the world.

During the last few years, routine applications of NMR techniques have been further developed. Spectrometers of the latest generation offer new types of experiments, such as spinlock and inverse-detected methods. In this third, revised and expanded edition, new methodology is introduced and incorporated into new exercises. In addition, a new chapter has been introduced which demonstrates the fully detailed interpretation of two typical examples.

Wolfgang Dietrich fasst in der Nachbemerkung zur Trilogie uber die vielen Frieden seine Thesen zur moralisch-modernen Geschichte des transzendenten Friedens als singularetantische Abwesenheit und der postmodernen Annahme der vielen Frieden anschaulich zusammen. Dem fugt er UEberlegungen zum Frieden als energetisch-transrationales Geschehen im immanenten Weltsystem neu hinzu. Zu frieden oder nicht zu frieden ist diesem Buchlein die zentrale Frage.

Wolfgang Dietrich legt in diesem Buch systematische und umfangreiche Deutungen des Begriffs Frieden in unterschiedlichen historischen und kulturellen Kontexten vor. Er klassifiziert 5 Grossfamilien von Friedensbegriffen: die energetischen, die moralischen, die modernen, die postmodernen und die transrationalen. Neben der methodisch neuartigen und spannenden Zusammenschau unterschiedlicher Interpretationen der vielen Frieden stellt vor allem der transrationale Ansatz eine Innovation in der Disziplin der Friedensforschung dar. Er bildet die Grundlage fur die Methode der 'elizitiven Konflikttransformation', wie sie im Innsbrucker Universitatslehrgang fur Friedensstudien entwickelt wurde. Dieses Buch empfiehlt sich wegen seines breiten Forschungsansatzes und seiner innovativen Methode fur Lehrende und Studierende der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung ganz besonders, richtet sich aber daruber hinaus an ein breiteres Publikum der Geistes-, Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften.