The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Peace

ISBN-13: 9789811609688 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 1200 str.

Katerina Standish; Heather Devere; Adan Suazo

Spis treści

1. Defining the Platform of Positive Peace
2. The Nature of Reflective Choice and Nonviolence as a Personal Practice of Yoga
3. Personal Peacebuilding and COVID-19
4. Humor as a Major Intellectual Device for Thriving in Complexity
5. Contemplative Practices and Nonviolence
6. Resilience and the Claiming of Voice by Marginalized Communities
7. True Colors: Nonviolent Communication in the Post-Colonial Workplace
8. Forgiveness: A Nonviolent Resolution of Interpersonal Conflict
9. Peace Education
10. Classroom Resistance: Peace Education in a Time of Rising Authoritarianism
11. Nonviolent Resistance, Social Justice and Positive Peace
12. Pragmatic Nonviolence and Positive Peace
13. Women in Environmental Nonviolent Action
14. Satire and the Public Sphere: Ethics and Poetics, Reverse Discourses, Satiractivism
15. Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
16. Diplomacy
17. International Conflict Transformation: The Pursuit of Positive Peace
18. Conflict Transformation in the Arab World
19. The ABCs of Measuring Positive Peace
20. Retributive Justice:Retribution for Restoration of Balance
21. Restorative Justice: Blending Western and Indigenous Restorative Justice Principles
22. Promoting Peace via Inclusionary Justice
23. Transformative Justice: Exploring the 'Relational' in Transformative Gender Justice
24. The Right to Peace: From Just War to Just Peace
25. Women's Rights/Gender Rights: Positive Peace as Indigenous and Women's Rights
26. Disability Rights: Positive Peace through a Disability Lens
27. Indigenous Rights: Colonial Chimera? The Illusion of Positive Peace in a Settler Colonial Context
28. Refugee Rights: Essential for Positive Peace
29. The Rights of Children: Tensions between Protection and Participation
30. Media Freedom: A West Papuan Human Rights Journalism Case Study
31. Freedom from Violence: A Samoan Perspective on Addressing Domestic or Family Violence
32. Freedom from Discrimination: On the Coloniality of Positive Peace
33. Ecocide, Speciesism, Vulnerability: Revisiting Positive Peace in the Anthropocene
34. Searching for New Ethics in the Era of the Capitalocene
35. Environmental Sustainability: The Missing Pillar of Positive Peace
36. A Framework for Grassroots Environmentalism in Academic Settings
37. Decentralizing Consumption to Recenter the Land
38. When a Sense of Place lies at the Heart of a Community From the Upper Paleolithic to Glenorchy, New Zealand
39. The Rule of Benedict, Positive Peace, and "Place"
40. Food Justice and Positive Peace in Waikatere
41. Resources, Climate Change and Implications to Positive Peace among the Pastoral Communities in Kenya
42. Environmental Degradation and Conflict Resolution
43. Water Abundance, Hydropolitical Disputes and their Implications for Positive Peace in Aotearoa-New Zealand
44. Regional Environmental Cooperation: The (Lost) Potential for a Sustainable Future in the Arabian/Persian Gulf
45. Collaborative Environmental Conflict Resolution Practices in the North American Great Lakes Region
46. Relational Ethics: The Possibility of a Caring Positive Peace
47. Social Capital and Peace
48. Solidarity and Allyship: Engendering Positive Peace
49. Ethical Responsibility for the Other Arrested by Epistemic Blindness, Deafness and Muteness: An Ubuntu Perspective
50. Empathy and Peace
51. Positive Peace in Political Reconciliation
52. The Importance of Trust in Achieving Positive Peace
53. From Liberal Peace to Positive Peace: Security Sector Reform in Deeply Divided Societies
54. Positive Peace through Personal Friendship: Franco-German Reconciliation (1974-1995)
55. Contact Programs and the Pursuit of Positive Peace: Reframing Perceptions of Equality
56. Transforming the Way We Speak, Transforming the Way We Listen: Dialogue and the Transformation of Relationships
57. Education for Peaceful Relationships
58. Weaving a Culture of Peace
59. Restorative Justice as Restoration of Relationships
60. Generating Discursive Resources: Storytelling for Positive Peace
61. Peace Communities

O autorze

Dr Katerina Standish is the Director of Research and Senior Lecturer at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Her research projects and scholarly publications include content related to COVID-19, suicide, femicide, conflict transformation, decolonization, story, humanistic sociology, hope, gender, social, cultural and political violence, Encounter Theory, education and conflict, peace education, Human Rights, social justice, personal peacebuilding, principled/pragmatic nonviolence and academic research and writing. She is the author, co-author or co-editor of Suicide Through a Peacebuilding lens, Yogic Peace Education, Cultural Violence in the Classroom, Conflict Transformation, Peacebuilding and Storytelling, and Expanding the Edges of Narrative Enquiry: Research from the Mauro Institute. Dr Standish has published academic journal articles in Peace Review, Peacebuilding, Journal of Peace Education, Journal of Peace and Justice Studies, In Factis Pax: Journal of Peace Education and Justice Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies Journal, Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, Humanity & Society, Journal of Gender Studies, Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, Global Journal of Peace Research and Praxis, Peace Studies Journal, Peace and Conflict Review, International Journal of Development Education & Global Learning, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Journal of Human Security and Geopolitics. Dr Standish is the Editor-in-Chief of the Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, senior editor of the Palgrave Handbook for Positive Peace, and sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Peace Education, In Factis Pax: Journal of Peace Education and Social Justice, International Journal of Advanced Peace and Gandhian Studies, and Global Journal of Peace Research and Praxis. Dr Standish is a community peacebuilder, Certified Conflict Coach, Somatic Trainer and trauma informed instructor.

Dr Adan E. Suazo is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Ministry for the Environment (New Zealand) and a Research Associate at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago (New Zealand). His research examines the conditions that influence the emergence and intensification of water disputes. He also specialises in the design and implementation of stakeholder identification and engagement strategies for peacebuilding and policy development. As the founding Coordinator of the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre at Concordia University (Canada), he worked on sustainability and peacebuilding projects with the International Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations Environmental Education and Training Unit, and Future Earth.

Dr Heather Devere is Director of Practice at the Te Ao o Rongomaraeroa/National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand.  Her doctoral thesis is in Politics from the University of Auckland and examines women’s attitudes to civil rights issues.  She has taught at several universities on topics such as conflict resolution, indigenous peace traditions, ethics, social justice, and politics, and acts as an advocate for mediations involving not-for-profit organisations. Dr Devere is founding co-editor of AMITY: The Journal of Friendship Studies published by Leeds University. Some of Dr Devere’s publications include Friendship Studies: Practices across Cultures (with Dr Graham Smith and Professor John von Heyking); Decolonising Peace and Conflict Studies through Indigenous Research (with Dr Kelli Te Maihāroa and Dr Michael Ligaliga); Peacebuilding and the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples (with Dr John Synott and Dr Kelli Te Maihāroa) and The Challenge to Friendship Studies in Modernity (with Professor Preston King). 

Dr Rachel Rafferty Dr Rachel Rafferty works as a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Derby, United Kingdom. Before joining the University of Derby, she worked as a Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand. Before Dr Rafferty moved into an academic career, she gained several years of work experience in the charity sector. She worked for over five years coordinating community peacebuilding projects in post-conflict Northern Ireland. This work involved activities such as facilitating dialogues between different religious groups, coordinating collaborative art projects, and working with schools to promote peace education. She has also previously worked with New Zealand Red Cross coordinating youth humanitarian projects. Dr Rafferty’s areas of expertise include collective memory in ethnic conflicts, peace activism, and refugee resettlement. She has published a number of journal articles and book chapters on topics such as post-conflict peacebuilding, international conflict resolution, and refugee resettlement. Dr Rafferty holds a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Otago.