Making peace

Curle, Adam

Tavistock Publications

Mystics and militants: A study of awareness, identity and social action

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Education for Liberation

Education for liberation

Tavistock

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

John Wiley&Sons

True justice: Quaker peace makers and peace making (Swarthmore lecture)

Quaker Home Service

If the holy potential is in each of us, and we recognise it, our behaviour towards others must be deeply affected. How could we abuse or treat them as enemies? Must we not try to heal relationships fractured by anger, fear and incomprehension, making use of the universal capacity for peace making that flows from 'that of God'? To do so effectively involves understanding the nature of unpeaceful relations and recognising that there are different types depending on the power balance of the protagonists. But some methods are always appropriate: recognising and responding to the good in the other, establishing and maintaining a relationship of trust, listening, perseverance. There is no box of magic peace making tricks. All depends on love and concern informed by experience and understanding.

True Justice. Quaker Peace Makers and Peace Making

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Quaker Press

The frightening and occasionally hilarious accounts of the author’s peace work in numerous countriesfrom Ireland and South Africa to Ghana and Croatiaare recalled in this moving and inspiring examination. Adopting the spiritual values and perceptions of Quakerism and Buddhism, the author blends together elements of psychology, anthropology, and mediation with a lifetime of experience in peace activism to bring the realities of peace work to life. Additional chapters explore the impact of the Black Cloud,” or the psychological consequences of a nonpeaceful way of life, found throughout the worldwhether by working with the leaders of nations or residents of remote villages.

The Fragile Voice of Love

Jon Carpenter Publishing

Explores mediation, development and education. Specific topics include: approaches to violence, negotiation, the nature of democracy, consensus management, community development, non-violence and learning for life. Case studies are drawn from varied cultural and geographical sources.

Tools for Transformation (Conflict & Peacebuilding)

Politics & Government

Hawthorn Press

An epidemic of violence is spreading throughout the world. There is crime and gang warfare in the cities, and large scale deadly conflict in a hundred places across the globe - from Bosnia to Liberia to Afghanistan to Cambodia to Sudan. It is hard to know whether the breeding ground of this violence is in human nature or in history, for it is so often entirely pointless, as futile for the killer as for the killed. An academic turned practical peacemaker and mediator, Adam Curle has encountered this violence in many parts of the world. He believes it derives mainly from alienation, the feeling of separation from a world made meaningless and unmanageable by the social and political consequences of two world wars and extraordinary technological development. The surge of violence, without parallel for its sheer scale, its universality and its refusal to respond to conventional policing or diplomacy, has created insoluble domestic problems for police and social services, as well as for the UN and other international agencies. But in embattled Croatia the author has worked with a group of people who have somehow immunised themselves against the prevalent fear, anger, prejudice and militarism. They live there - they are not 'outsiders' or 'advisers'. They care for the thousands of refugees, those traumatised by war, and the countless children whose only experience is of violence. By their example and practice they spread the values of compassion and non-violence, as they build the foundations of a peaceful society.

Another Way: Positive Response to Contemporary Violence

The gap between rich and poor, weak and powerful grows ever wider, In parallel with increasing threats of violence, environmental destruction and economic collapse, and the loss of a happiness falsely built on the fruits of wealth.
The catch that Curle so vividly describes in this book is that we cannot destroy this modern Hydra, because we are part of it. Yet there is another model, an alternative reality, and by showing us examples from all over the world of this other reality at work, he show us that it is possible, even at this late stage, to tame the Hydra, and use its skills and energy to built a safer, happier future. He writes:
The chief characteristic of this emerging world is the interconnectedness of the destructive forces, the interwoven and increasingly interacting world-wide forces of economic, political and military power: a global culture of violence.

To Tame the Hydra: Undermining the Culture of Violence

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

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