Patterns of Conflict, Paths to Peace (Paperback)

Larry J. Fisk

ISBN 10: 1442600225 / ISBN 13: 9781442600225

Published by University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2008

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Paperback. This book aims to build bridges to peace by spanning the fields of conflict resolution and traditional peace studies, and by facing the contending perspectives of academics and practitioners. It serves not only as a transdisciplinary introduction to the study of peace and conflict but as an intelligent and sensitive challenge to common understandings. Positive peace, conflict transformation, contemporary peacekeeping, non-violent action, peace education and the new peace movements are laid out for consideration and basic concepts and directions are covered. But more important is the critical evaluation of patterns and the plotting of alternative paths. As UNESCO promotes an International Year of the Culture of Peace (2000) and the United Nations sponsors a decade of peace culture (2000 to 2010), the essays in Patterns of Conflict, Paths to Peace represent an invaluable primer for anyone concerned to participate in such a culture. This book aims to build bridges to peace by spanning the fields of conflict resolution and traditional peace studies, and by facing the contending perspectives of academics and practitioners. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Patterns of Conflict, Paths to Peace (Paperback)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442600225
• ISBN 13: 9781442600225
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This book aims to build bridges to peace by spanning the fields of conflict resolution and traditional peace studies, and by facing the contending perspectives of academics and practitioners. It serves not only as a transdisciplinary introduction to the study of peace and conflict but as an intelligent and sensitive challenge to common understandings. Positive peace, conflict transformation, contemporary peacekeeping, non-violent action, peace education and the new peace movements are laid out for consideration and basic concepts and directions are covered. But more important is the critical evaluation of patterns and the plotting of alternative paths. As UNESCO promotes an International Year of the Culture of Peace (2000) and the United Nations sponsors a decade of peace culture (2000 to 2010), the essays in Patterns of Conflict, Paths to Peace represent an invaluable primer for anyone concerned to participate in such a culture.

About the Author

The late Larry J. Fisk was an Associate Professor of Political Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, and was President of the Canadian Peace Research and Education Association.

John Schellenberg is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Past-Coordinator of Peace and Conflict Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax.