Overview

This book aims to build bridges to peace by spanning the fields of conflict resolution and traditional peace studies, and by facing the contending perspectives of academics and practitioners. It serves not only as a transdisciplinary introduction to the study of peace and conflict but as an intelligent and sensitive challenge to common understandings. Positive peace, conflict transformation, contemporary peacekeeping, non-violent action, peace education and the new peace movements are laid out for consideration and basic concepts and directions are covered. But more important is the critical evaluation of patterns and the plotting of alternative paths. As UNESCO promotes an International Year of the Culture of Peace (2000) and the United Nations sponsors a decade of peace culture (2000 to 2010), the essays in Patterns of Conflict, Paths to Peace represent an invaluable primer for anyone concerned to participate in such a culture.

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Author:   Larry J. Fisk ,  John L. Schellenberg
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9781442600225

ISBN 10:   1442600225
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 April 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9781551111544
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Preface, Larry J. Fisk and John Schellenberg 1. Shaping a Vision: The Nature of Peace Studies, Conrad G. Brunk (Conrad Grebel College, Waterloo) 2. Working It Out: Conflict in Interpersonal Contexts, Loraleigh Keashly (Wayne State) and William C. Warters (Wayne State) 3. Disentangling Disputes: Conflict in the International Arena, Alex Morrison (The Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre) 4. Nonviolence: A Road Less Travelled, Jo Vellacott (historian, Kingston, Ontario) 5. From Protest to Cultural Creativity: Peace Movements Identified and Revisited, Nigel Young (Colgate) 6. Shaping Visionaries: Nurturing Peace Through Education, Larry J. Fisk Epilogue On Theory and Practice, Realism and Idealism, Conrad G. Brunk The Conflict Resolution Continuum, Loraleigh Keashly and Bill Warters Theorists and Practitioners: Antagonists or Partners? Alex Morrison Dynamic Peace and the Practicality of Pacifism, Jo Vellacott Peace Studies at the Millennium, Nigel Young Last Thoughts and First Principles, Larry J. Fisk

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We live in a needful time; Canadian peace researchers Larry Fisk and John Schellenberg have undertaken to gather reasoned, documented pleas and plans for a positive collective step across the millennial divide.This is a book that surveys the discipline-the interdiscipline-that holds for humanity the full equivalent of a cure for cancer; that is, the perscription for effective new methods of conflict management, from the interpersonal to the international that involve force, not violence. This is the stuff of flinty-eyed idealism, a compilation of the best of the realpolitik of nonviolent praxis. - Tom Howard-Hastings, Coordinator, Peace and Global Studies, Northland College

This book aims to build bridges to peace by spanning the fields of conflict resolution and traditional peace studies, and by facing the contending perspectives of academics and practitioners.

Author Information

The late Larry J. Fisk was an Associate Professor of Political Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, and was President of the Canadian Peace Research and Education Association. John Schellenberg is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Past-Coordinator of Peace and Conflict Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax.

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