Putting Peace into Practice: Evaluating Policy on Local and Global Levels (Philosophy of Peace, 164)

This book examines the role and limits of policies in shaping attitudes and actions toward war, violence, and peace. Authors examine militaristic language and metaphor, effects of media violence on children, humanitarian intervention, sanctions, peacemaking, sex offender treatment programs, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, community, and political forgiveness to identify problem policies and develop better ones.

NANCY NYQUIST POTTER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. She is an executive board member of International Philosophers for Peace and co-organized the World Peace Meet in Calcutta, India, in 1999. She teaches courses on the nature of violence, philosophies of peace, ethics, feminist theory, and philosophy of mental illness. She is also a board member of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry and is interested in intersections between mental health, culture, and violence. She is the author of How Can I Be Trusted? A Virtue Theory of Trustworthiness, a book that examines relationships between trust and power.