Finding Peace - Softcover

Vanier, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887846831 ISBN 13: 9780887846830

Publisher: House of Anansi Press, 2003

Synopsis

One of our deepest human desires and needs is to live in peace. We all yearn for peace, but what is it exactly? How do we find it, and how can we bring peace to our lives and our communities? Jean Vanier reflects on recent world events, identifying the sources of conflict and fear within and among individuals, communities, and nations that thwart us in our quest for peace. Peace is not just the work of governments or armies or diplomats, he argues, but the task of each one of us. We can all become makers of peace. We can do our part. And though it's easy to be a love of peace and much more difficult to be a worker for peace, Vanier shows us that ordinary people, unknown and unrecognized, are transforming our world little by little, finding peace in our neighborhoods, and lighting the way to change.

About this title

About the Author:

Jean Vanier is the founder of L'Arche and Faith and Light, international networks of people with mental disabilities. He is a former professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. He received the Paul VI Prize for his work in human development and progress in 1997. He is the author of Becoming Human, Community and Growth, and Happiness.

About this edition

• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0887846831
• ISBN 13: 9780887846830
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 89