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Searching
for Peace provides a wide-ranging survey of past and present
approaches to violent conflict prevention. The book’s extensive
analysis of the emergent conflict dynamics which, if not resolved,
threaten an even more violent twenty-first century, is as important as
its comprehensive look at past conflicts–it is for these that the
new TRANSCEND approach/method is crucially pertinent. The book
critiques the failures of recent peacekeeping and peacemaking efforts
while presenting the multi-decade research and arguments that underlie
the TRANSCEND approach. Aiming to include all participants in the
peace dialogue, TRANSCEND charts a better-opportunity alternative path
to a less violent future.
“..very
interesting...a particular pleasure to read something not only
sensible but even hopeful on methods for moving towards some decent
outcome under what appear to be almost hopeless situations...[a] very
good read.”
Noam
Chomsky,
Professor, M.I.T.
“..I
read [the book] with absorbing interest. The sections on conflict
resolution are especially perceptive. So is the discussion of the war
culture...Thank you for a fine contribution to peace science.”
Anatol
Rapoport,
Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
“What
a fascinating book! This highly condensed and powerful overview of the
past and present realpolitik of peacemaking during continuous
historical struggles between national identity and state integrity,
opens up major new ways to think about the seemingly intractable
problems of state-nation interface. The Transcend method...takes its
place as a highly significant strategy in the rich array of
peacebuilding techniques...This book is a must-read for scholars,
practitioners, policy-makers–and peace activists!”
Elise Boulding, Professor Emeritus of Sociology,
Dartmouth College, and past Secretary-General of the International
Peace Research Association.
Searching
for Peace; the Road to TRANSCEND
London:
Pluto, 2000
Table
of Contents:
Preface
Part 1: Conflict Resolution: Perspectives and Assumptions
1.1
Peace-making as Realpolitik
1.2
Our War Culture’s Defining Parameters: Their Essence; Their
Ramifications
(external;
domestic; ‘racism’; ‘borders’; ‘international law’)
Part 2: Conflict Formations for the 21st Century
2.1
Exiting the 20th Century, Entering the 21st: Some Basic
Conflict Formations
2.2
Russia-China: The New "Strategic Partnership"
2.3
New-Century Eurasian Conflict Dynamics
2.4
East Asia/South China Sea: 21st Century Conflict Dynamics
Part 3: A Practice of Peace: The TRANSCEND Approach
3.1
TRANSCEND: 40 Years, 40 Conflicts
3.2
40 Conflicts; 40 Perspectives
3.3
The State/Nation Dialectic: Some Tentative Conclusions
3.4
Crafting Peace: On the Theory of the TRANSCEND Approach
In
Lieu of a Conclusion: Other Thoughts Towards a Road-Map
4.1
Beyond Mediation
4.2
Beyond Security
Johan
Galtung is Director of TRANSCEND and Professor of Peace Studies.
Carl
G. Jacobsen is Professor of International and Conflict/Peace Studies
and Director of Eurasian Security Studies at Carleton University
Kai
Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen is Director and Satyagrahi of ICL/Praxis for Peace and Board member and Chair of
TRANSCEND’s Peace Actor Empowerment program.
Finn
Tschudi is Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo.
Pluto
Press, April 2000 (available 1st week of April; May 2000 in
North America)
Hardback
0 7453 1614 X: 45 pounds sterling; Paperback 0 7453 1613 1: 14,99 pounds
sterling
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