The Palgrave international handbook of peace studies: a cultural perspective

Thirty-four outstanding scholars write about the etymological meaning and thereligious, legal and political connotations of the concept of 'peace'. They provide firm evidence to show how adopting a multi-faceted approach to 'peace' could ultimately contribute to the search for a more authentic understanding of 'peace' across the world stage. WOLFGANG DIETRICH is UNESCO Chairholder and Program Director for Peace Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is Visiting Professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria, at the Centre for Peace and Development Studies at the University of Castellón, Spain,and at the United Nation's Peace University in Ciudad Colón, Costa Rica. He has written almost 200 books and articles, and his work has been published in five languages. . JOSEFINA ECHAVARRÍA is a Colombian peace researcher based at the UNESCO Chair and MA Program for Peace Studies at the University of Innsbruck. GUSTAVO ESTEVA founded the Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, Mexico. Previously, he was advisor to the Mexican government, chairman of the board of UNRISD, and consultant for CEPAL and UNESCO. He currently works at the Centre for Intercultural Dialogue and Exchange (CEDI) in Oaxaca. DANIELA INGRUBER is anAustrian war and film researcher, currently based at the UNESCO Chair and MA Program for Peace Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria. NORBERT KOPPENSTEINER is Research and Publications Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair for Peace Studies and Program Coordinator of the MA Program for Peace Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. INDICE: Foreword - Introduction; 'W.Dietrich' - PART I: PEACE CONCEPTS IN EUROPE - Beyond the Gates of Eden: Trans-rational Peaces; 'W.Dietrich' - Peace: The European Narrative; 'K.Koppe' - Pax: A Mediterranean Perspective; 'F.Muñoz & B.Molina' - Peace: A Western European Perspective; 'N.Young' - Friðr: A Northern European Perspective; 'E.K.Undrum Jacobsen' - PART II: PEACE CONCEPTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST - Shalom: A Jewish Perspective; 'M.H.Ellis' - Shalom/Salaam: A Personal Palestinian Perspective; 'M.Fasheh' - Salaam: A Muslim Perspective; 'A.Haneef' - Salaam: A Sufi Perspective;' U.Rehman' - Salaam: An Alevilik Perspective; 'A.Çakir - 'PART III: PEACE CONCEPTS IN SOUTH AND EAST ASIA - Shanti: An Indian Perspective; 'S.V.Bharati' - Shi wa: A Vajrayana Buddhist Perspective; 'K.L.Tsomo - 'He Ping: A Confucian Perspective; 'K.-P.Yu' - Haiwa: A Shinto Perspective; 'I.Anzai' - Buddhism and the World Peace; 'J.Galtung' - PARTIV: MAORI AND NATIVE AMERICAN PEACE CONCEPTS - He Taura Whiri: A Maori Perspective; 'P.Horsley' - Skennen: A North American Indian Perspective; 'P.Lauderdale' - Kayanerekowa: A Mohawk Perspective;' R.Vachon - 'Guelaguetza and Tu Chha'ia: A Zapotec Perspective of What Others Call Friendship; 'G.Esteva & A.Guerrero' - Thaq: An Andean-Amazonian Perspective; 'G.Rengifo V. - 'Nengelaasekhammalhkoo: An Enlhet Perspective; 'H.Kalisch' - PART V: PEACE CONCEPTS IN AFRICA - Asomdwoe: A West African Perspective; 'K.A.Opoku - 'T'ùmmu: An East African Perspective; 'B.Gebrewold - 'African Salaam; 'A.L.Sarr' - PART VI: PEACE THINKERS - Mahatma Ghandi's Concept of Peace: A Grandson's Perspective; 'A.Gandhi' - Ghaffar Khan: Gautama Buddha of Hashtnagar; 'S.S.Mehdi - 'The Inward Revolution: Aurobindo Ghose and Jiddu Krishnamurti; 'S.S.Kumar' - Peaces, a Gift of Grace, Turned into Modern Horror: Ivan Illich Visionary of the Twentieth Century; 'M.Kaller-Dietrich' - Pagans and Nomads: The Postmodern Peaces of Jean-François Lyotard and Gilles Deleuze; 'N.Koppensteiner' - NgügI wa Thiong'o: Listening for Peace and Resilience in Africa from Makerere 1962 to Asmara 2000; 'A.M.Almedon' - Intercultural Inspiration: The Life and Work of Raimon Panikkar; 'G.Esteva' - Gregory Bateson: A Practitioners' Perspective; 'V.Fontan' - Final Remarks; 'J.Echavarría, D.Ingruber & N.Koppensteiner - 'Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23786-5
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 656
• Fecha Publicación: 11/01/2011
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