Building New Pathways to Peace

KAWAMURA, Noriko, Yoichiro Murakami and Shin Chiba, edited by

ISBN 10: 0295991038 / ISBN 13: 9780295991030

Published by University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2011

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First edition. Tall octavo. xii, 262pp. Fine in glossy wrappers. Inscribed to a noted theologian by co-editor Shin Chiba on the half title, and with a program for a 2012 Princeton program featuring them both laid in.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building New Pathways to Peace
• Publisher: University of Washington Press, Seattle
• Publication Date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0295991038
• ISBN 13: 9780295991030
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

In the post-Cold War era, problems of war and peace have become complicated and ambiguous, involving such nonmilitary issues as the north-south dichotomy of power, resource depletion, and globalization of capitalism. To create a twenty-first-century intellectual and theoretical foundation for peace studies, Building New Pathways to Peace considers both the old concepts of tolerance, shalom, and wa, and the relatively new concepts of human security, decent peace, credibility, accountability, plurality, multiculturalism, and transnationalism. It also elucidates impediments to and necessary conditions for actualizing peace.

About the Author

Noriko Kawamura is associate professor of history, Washington State University. Yoichiro Murakami and Shin Chiba teach at the International Christian University in Tokyo. Other contributors are Martha Cottam, Gregory Hooks, Takashi Kibe, Otwin Marenin, Anri Morimoto, T. V. Reed, Susan Ross, Raymond Sun, and Kano Yamamoto.