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.


Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace

Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace

Author: Joseph de Rivera

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-11-28

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0387095756

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Mediation and negotiation, personal transformation, non-violent struggle in the community and the world: these behaviors – and their underlying values – underpin the United Nations’ definition of a culture of peace, and are crucial to the creation of such a culture. The Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace addresses this complex and daunting task by presenting an accessible blueprint for this development. Its perspectives are international and interdisciplinary, involving the developing as well as the developed world, with illustrations of states and citizens using peace-based values to create progress on the individual, community, national, and global levels. The result is both realistic and visionary, a prescription for a secure future.


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'.


Creating Community Cohesion

Creating Community Cohesion

Author: D. Herbert

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-09-24

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1137312726

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Using approaches from sociology, media and religious studies, David Herbert compares recent public controversies involving or implicating religion in the UK (England and Northern Ireland), the Netherlands and France.


Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Post-Violence Societies

Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Post-Violence Societies

Author: Nasia Hadjigeorgiou

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-02-20

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1509923446

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This book critically examines the relationship between protecting human rights and building peace in post-violence societies. It explores the conditions that must be present, and strategies that should be adopted, for the former to contribute to the latter. The author argues that human rights can aid peacebuilding efforts by helping victims of past violence to articulate their grievance, and by encouraging the state to respond to and provide them with a meaningful remedy. This usually happens either through a process of adjudication, whereby human rights can offer guidance to the judiciary as to the best way to address such grievances, or through the passing and implementation of human rights laws and policies that seek to promote peace. However, this positive relationship between human rights and peace is both qualified and context specific. Through an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of four case studies, the book identifies the conditions that can support the effective use of human rights as peacebuilding tools. Developing these, the book recommends a series of strategies that peacebuilders should adopt and rely on. Winner of the Constantinos Emilianides Award in Law for 2020 (joint conferment).


Liberal Peace Transitions

Liberal Peace Transitions

Author: Oliver P Richmond

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2011-04-06

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0748687963

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A critical assessment of current liberal approaches to post-conflict statebuilding with constructive suggestions as to where improvements might be made. Newly available in paperback.