Friendship, Peace and Social Justice
Friendship, Peace and Social Justice

Author: Heather Devere

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-06-20

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1000894045

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A just peaceful world. How can that be achieved? What sorts of relationships might be needed? Could the concept of friendship assist? Assembling the work of twenty scholars, this book creates a resource for those aiming to deal with conflict non-violently and promotes peaceful attitudes and outcomes in a troubled world. The book posits that making the connections between Friendship, Peace and Social Justice is vital for living in a functioning and sustainable world. Firstly, it makes connections between scholars of peace and conflict studies, friendship studies, ethics, and social justice. Secondly, it explores the connections between the ethical concepts and practices of friendship, peace, and social justice. Thirdly, it links academic researchers who use a variety of methodological approaches. Fourthly, it provides different academic perspectives of scholars from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The topics covered include civic, social and virtue friendship, peace and psycho-social development, the role of social media and friendship, cultures of peace activism, resistance, justice movements, environmental campaigns, community building, art collectives, dialogue, facilitative listening, Ubuntu, reconciliation, healing and relationship building. This book will be of great interest to researchers and scholars in Politics, Sociology, Social Justice and Peace and Conflict Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Peace Review.

Economies of Peace
Economies of Peace

Author: Werner Distler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 0429559291

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Looking beyond and beneath the macro level, this book examines the processes and outcomes of the interaction of economic reforms and socio-economic peacebuilding programmes with, and international interventions in, people’s lived realities in conflict-affected societies. The contributions argue that disregarding socio-economic aspects of peace and how they relate to the everyday leaves a vacuum in the understanding of the formation of post-conflict economies. To address this gap, the book outlines and deploys the concept of ‘post-conflict economy formation’. This is a multifaceted phenomenon, including both formal and informal processes that occur in the post-conflict period and contribute to the introduction, adjustment, or abolition of economic practices, institutions, and rules that inform the transformation of the socio-economic fabric of the society. The contributions engage with existing statebuilding and peacebuilding debates, while bringing in critical political economy perspectives. Specifically, they analyse processes of post-conflict economy formation and the navigation between livelihood needs; local translations of the liberal hegemonic order; and different, sparse manifestations of welfare states. The book concludes that a sustainable peace requires the formation of peace economies: economies that work towards reducing structural inequalities and grievances of the (pre-)conflict period, as well as addressing the livelihood concerns of citizens. This book was originally published as a special issue of Civil Wars.

Building Positive Peace
Building Positive Peace

Author: Christina Campbell

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2023-02-16

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1527593320

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This book coherently maps a path to sustainable global peace. Written by a team of scholars from many disciplines, each contribution provides one way to shift us from our current way of being and onto the path to peace. The work identifies a group of approaches relevant to the contemporary world and the crises we face. It covers politics, the environment, food security, architecture, and other areas of human activity. The authors see positive peace as a way to encourage humans to actively create a peace-filled world. Their essays suggest how, together, we can ensure that human flourishing is possible for all people. Peace activists, environmentalists, and climate scientists will find this a fascinating and thought-provoking read.

Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding
Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding

Author: M. Pugh

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-04

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 0230228747

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The book provides critical perspectives that reach beyond the technical approaches of international financial institutions and proponents of the liberal peace formula. It investigates political economies characterized by the legacies of disruption to production and exchange, by population displacement, poverty, and by 'criminality'.

Violent Neoliberalism
Violent Neoliberalism

Author: S. Springer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-18

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1137485337

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Violent Neoliberalism explores the complex unfolding relationship between neoliberalism and violence. Employing a series of theoretical dialogues on development, discourse and dispossession Cambodia, this study sheds significant empirical light on the vicious implications of free market ideology and practice.

Ethical Sustainability for a Peaceful World
Ethical Sustainability for a Peaceful World

Author: Daniel R. Gowen

Publisher: Daniel Ray Gowen

Published: 2020-06-20

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 0578774097

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Ethical sustainability utilizes sympathy and compassion in examining the living conditions of all species and the environment, and determines culture and laws via the unpersecuted popular vote, so that all of society advances together in unison with less strife. Ethical solutions are constantly needed to be examined and voted upon because almost all people have changing opinions as they grow older and become more educated with knowledge and compassion of suffering. Some ideas and solutions discussed, are a sustainable government foundation of socio-economics that supports all people human-rights and basic needs at the lowest cost, so that capitalism can attempt to gain profit margins for those who work harder and smarter to deserve more benefits of society, a 100% secure stock index retirement pension plan, affordable health-care for all, a positive cultural mindset for a healthy ethical humanity, renewable energy from every building, positive and ethical population control of equality birth-rights per person l, so as to preserve individual constitutional freedoms with abundant land-space for all individuals, society, and wild-life, garden nature centers in every County to end hunger, durable homeless tiny-home solutions, crime prevention with new technologies available to every jury based court case with an appeal process that extends up to the highest court, ethical community centers that also incorporate ethical education for business contract license certification, a clean natural environment, and all societal issues that the good-will of the people ethically determine. I support ethical laws that maximize individual freedoms without unethically inhibiting other individuals, and or society, in a government structure that maintains a forever socio-economic shape regardless of depression or expansion.

Promoting Conflict or Peace through Identity
Promoting Conflict or Peace through Identity

Author: Nikki R. Slocum-Bradley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1317074777

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Developing a solid basis for future research and training, this illuminating volume facilitates peace and mutual understanding between people by addressing a root cause of social conflicts: identity constructions. The volume encompasses eight revealing empirical case studies from regions throughout the world, conducted by experts from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Each case study examines how identities are being constructed and used in the region, how these identities are related to borders and in what ways identity constructions foment peace or conflict. The volume summarizes insights gleaned from these studies and formulates an analytical framework for understanding the role of identity constructions in conflict or peace.