Towards a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace: Navigating the Great Transition

ISBN-13: 9789811550201 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 363 str.

Joseph Camilleri; Deborah Guess

Recenzje

"It takes us on a journey into new perspectives and offers us hope of a way through the crisis we and the earth face. ... The good news is that most presenters write in elegant English to make their message accessible to the general reader. ... it is a book to be seen as an investment, a point of reference for the long haul." (Disarming Times, Vol. 45 (4), December, 2020)

Spis treści

1. Introduction.- 2. A Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace: Navigating the ‘Great Transition’.- 3.  Crossroads and Crosshairs: Violence, Nonviolence, Critique, Vision and Wonder.- 4. 'Holding' a Just and Ecological Peace.- 5. ‘Walking the Land’: an Alternative to Discourse as a Path to Ecological Consciousness and Peace.- 6. An Islamic Approach to Environmental Protection and Ecologically Sustainable Peace in the Age of the Anthropocene.- 7. Islamic Ethics and Truth Commissions in the Muslim World: Towards a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace?.- 8. Innate Wisdom – Peace on/in/with Earth.- 9. Pope Francis’s moral compass for climate change and global justice.- 10. Restoring Our Interconnected Spiritual and Ecological Integrity: Imperative for a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace.- 11. Breathing the others, Seeing the lives: reflection on twenty-first century nonviolence.- 12. ‘We’ve Seen the End of the World and We Don’t Accept It’: Protection of Indigenous Country and Climate Justice.- 13. Reimagining Decolonising Praxis for a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace in an Australian Context.- 14. From Mendicant Nation to Global Citizen: Towards a new Australian foreign policy for the twenty-first century.- 15. Response: Utopian versus Prophetic Visions.- 16. The Winter of Our Discontent and the Promise of Spring: In Lieu of a Conclusion.

O autorze

Deborah Guess is an Honorary Research Associate and Adjunct Lecturer at Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia. Her primary research areas are eco-theology and Christology. She is currently writing a monograph exploring the eco-theological meaning/s of place.

Joseph A. Camilleri is Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He chairs the Academic Board of La Trobe College Australia, and is executive director of Alexandria Agenda, a venture in ethical consulting. In 2005 he founded the La Trobe Centre for Dialogue. Under his leadership, the Centre quickly established a national and international reputation for research, training, policy development, and community engagement.

Blurb

“Bringing together a richly multi-disciplinary mix of contributors, Guess’s and Camilleri’s collection models the ethos of creative collaboration and peaceable dialogue that it advocates.”
—Kate Rigby, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Bath Spa University, author of Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives and Ethics for Perilous Times (2015)

 “This thought-provoking collection of essays rekindles the hope that a promised land of peace, justice and ecological balance can still be reached.”
—Fabio Petito, University of Sussex

 “Essential reading for anyone searching for ways to confront populism, militarism and unsustainable growth models.”
—Kevin Clements Director, Toda Peace Institute, Tokyo

“This fine book elaborates with courage and prophetic hope the intellectual and experiential tools we need to navigate the crucial transition to a nonviolent ethic of a just and ecologically sustainable peace.”
—Bishop Philip Huggins, President, National Council of Churches in Australia 

This book addresses the need to develop a holistic approach to countering violence that integrates notions of peace, justice and care of the Earth. It is unique in that it does not stop with the move toward articulating ‘Just Peace’ as a human concern but probes the mindset needed for the shift to a ‘Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace’. It explores the values and principles that can guide this shift, theoretically and in practice. 

International in scope and grounded in the reality of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific context, the book brings together important insights drawn from the Indigenous relationship to land, ecological feminism, ecological philosophy, the social sciences more generally, and a range of religious and non-religious cosmologies. 

 Drawn from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, the contributors in this book apply their combined professional expertise and active engagement to illuminate the difficult choices that lie ahead.

Deborah Guess is an Honorary Research Associate and Adjunct Lecturer at Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia.

Joseph A. Camilleri is Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.