Overview
The just peace movement offers a critical shift in focus and imagination. Recognizing that all life is sacred and seeking peace through violence is unsustainable, the just peace approach turns our attention to rehumanization, participatory processes, nonviolent resistance, restorative justice, reconciliation, racial justice, and creative strategies of active nonviolence to build sustainable peace, transform conflict, and end cycles of violence. A Just Peace Ethic Primer illuminates a moral framework behind this praxis and proves its versatility in global contexts. With essays by a diverse group of scholars, A Just Peace Ethic Primer outlines the ethical, theological, and activist underpinnings of a just peace ethic.These essays also demonstrate and revise the norms of a just peace ethic through conflict cases involving US immigration, racial and environmental justice, and the death penalty, as well as gang violence in El Salvador, civil war in South Sudan, ISIS in Iraq, gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, women-led activism in the Philippines, and ethnic violence in Kenya. A Just Peace Ethic Primer exemplifies the ecumenical, interfaith, and multicultural aspects of a nonviolent approach to preventing and transforming violent conflict. Scholars, advocates, and activists working in politics, history, international law, philosophy, theology, and conflict resolution will find this resource vital for providing a fruitful framework and implementing a creative vision of sustainable peace.
Full Product Details
Author: Eli S. McCarthy ,
Eli S. McCarthy ,
Gerald W. Schlabach ,
Lisa Sowle Cahill
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Imprint: Georgetown University Press
Weight: 0.594kg
ISBN: 9781626167551
ISBN 10: 1626167559
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 May 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.
Reviews
This slender but powerful volume offers new ways of appreciating Russia's role in the world today. --Terrorism and Political Violence
This slender but powerful volume offers new ways of appreciating Russia's role in the world today. * Terrorism and Political Violence *
Students often say that nonviolent peacemaking is unrealistic. I will now assign McCarthy's stellar volume to test their doubts. These essays demonstrate convincingly that active nonviolence is a practical response to the conflicts roiling our communities. I'm confident that my students will end-up reconsidering their skepticism. -- Ki Joo Choi, Associate Professor of Theological Ethics and Chair, Department of Religion, Seton Hall University This wonderful collection of many young but already recognized international authors is yet another indication of Eli McCarthy's clear leadership in spreading the news of a just peace. McCarthy courageously and wisely helps us to teach this lesson with this genuinely engaging primer, perfect for course adoption. -- James F. Keenan, SJ, Canisius Professor and Director of the Jesuit Institute, Theology Department, Boston College
Author Information
Eli S. McCarthy teaches justice and peace studies at Georgetown University and coordinates the DC Peace Team. He is the author of Becoming Nonviolent Peacemakers: A Virtue Ethic for Catholic Social Teaching and U.S. Policy and regularly engages in strategic advocacy for federal policy as the Director of Justice and Peace for the Conference of Major Superiors of Men.
