The Art of Waging Peace: A Strategic Approach to Improving Our Lives and the World - Softcover

Chappell, Paul K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 163226031X ISBN 13: 9781632260314

Publisher: Prospecta Press, 2015

Synopsis

Over two thousand years ago, Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War. In today’s struggle to stop war, terrorism, and other global problems, West Point graduate Paul K. Chappell offers new and practical solutions in his pioneering book, The Art of Waging Peace. By sharing his own personal struggles with childhood trauma, racism, and berserker rage, Chappell explores the anatomy of war and peace, giving strategies, tactics, and leadership principles to resolve inner and outer conflict.

Chappell explains from a military perspective how Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. were strategic geniuses, more brilliant and innovative than any general in military history, courageous warriors who advanced a more effective method than waging war for providing national and global security. This pragmatic and richly instructive book shows how we can become active citizens with the skills and strength to defeat injustice and end all war.

About this title

About the Author

Paul K. Chappell graduated from West Point in 2002, was deployed to Baghdad, and left active duty in November 2009 as a Captain. He is the author of the Road to Peace series, a seven-book series about waging peace, ending war, the art of living, and what it means to be human. The first four published books in this series are Will War Ever End?, The End of War, Peaceful Revolution, and The Art of Waging Peace.

Chappell serves as the Peace Leadership Director for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Lecturing across the country and internationally, he also teaches college courses and workshops on Peace Leadership. He grew up in Alabama, the son of a half-black and half-white father who fought in the Korean and Vietnam wars, and a Korean mother.

Review

I am profoundly grateful for the courage and intelligence with which Paul K. Chappell serves his country.”
-- Barry Lopez, National Book Award winner

As a Vietnam combat veteran I think it is highly inspiring to discover that someone with Captain Chappell’s credentials has refocused his military training, discipline, courage, and compassion to redirect those skills toward the necessary strategies of gaining the peace. I highly recommend this book to everyone who cares about the subject, and pity all those who don’t.”
-- Thomas Steinbeck, John Steinbeck Family Foundation

Paul K. Chappell provides a cutting-edge perspective on peace issues, backed with extensive research and historical knowledge, as well as the skills that all activists need to be effective in challenging the war system and creating a culture of peace.”
-- Stephanie Knox Cubbon, Faculty, National Peace Academy;
Fellow, Metta Center for Nonviolence

About this edition

• Publisher: Prospecta Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 163226031X
• ISBN 13: 9781632260314
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344