Overview

This updated edition of ""Searching For Peace"" analyses the reasons for conflict prevention and peacekeeping failures, and presents the lessons that can be learned from the TRANSCEND approach, now adopted as a UN training guide. Analyses of recent conflicts are followed by studies of contemporary conflict dynamics that, if not resolved, threaten even more catastrophic violence. This text maps the conditions and path to sustainable peace.

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Author:   Johan Galtung ,  Carl G. Jacobsen ,  Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.449kg
ISBN:  

9780745319285

ISBN 10:   0745319289
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   20 May 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface - TRANSCEND: A Philosophy Of Peace - And One Way Of Enacting It Introduction: A Bird's Eye View I Conflict, War and Peace: A Bird's Eye View by Johan Galtung II Peace: The Goal and the Way by Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen Part 1 Towards a Theory and Practice of Peace by Peaceful Means 1.1 Peace-making as Realpolitik, Conflict Resolution and Oxymoron: the Record, the Challenge by Carl G. Jacobsen with Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen 1.2 Beyond Mediation: Towards More Holistic Approaches to Peacebuilding and Peace Actor Empowerment by Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen with Carl G. Jacobsen 1.3 September 11 2001: Diagnosis, Prognosis, Therapy by Johan Galtung 1.4 Our War Culture's Defining Parameters: Their Essence; Their Ramifications (external; domestic; 'racism'; 'borders'; 'international law') by Carl G. Jacobsen and Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen 1.5 The State/Nation Dialectic: Some Tentative Conclusions by Johan Galtung 1.6 Beyond Security: New Approaches, New Perspectives, New Actors by Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen, with Carl G. Jacobsen 1.7 Crafting Peace: On the Psychology of the TRANSCEND Approach by Johan Galtung and Finn Tschudi Part 2 The TRANSCEND Experience: Diagnosis, Prognosis, Therapy 2.1 TRANSCEND: 40 Years, 40 Conflicts by Johan Galtung 2.2 45 Conflicts; 45 Perspectives by Johan Galtung Notes Index

Reviews

'Impressive and moving, and very saddening as well ... A particular pleasure to read something not only sensible but even hopeful on methods of moving towards some decent outcome under what appears to be almost hopeless situations.' --Noam Chomsky 'Fascinating! This highly condensed and powerful overview opens up major new ways to think about the seemingly intractable problems of state nation interface ... this book is a must for scholars, practitioners and policy makers and peace activists.' --Elise Boulding, Professor Emeritus, Dartmouth College 'Galtung's writing always provides succinct and important insights ... The book has appropriate and important targets: it seeks to uncover the general truth among the particular complications; it does not draw back from proposing courses of action; it confronts serious tasks.' --EthnicConflict Research Digest

'Impressive and moving, and very saddening as well ... A particular pleasure to read something not only sensible but even hopeful on methods of moving towards some decent outcome under what appears to be almost hopeless situations.' --Noam Chomsky  'Fascinating! This highly condensed and powerful overview opens up major new ways to think about the seemingly intractable problems of state nation interface ... this book is a must for scholars, practitioners and policy makers and peace activists.' --Elise Boulding, Professor Emeritus, Dartmouth College  'Galtung's writing always provides succinct and important insights ... The book has appropriate and important targets: it seeks to uncover the general truth among the particular complications; it does not draw back from proposing courses of action; it confronts serious tasks.' --EthnicConflict Research Digest

Author Information

Johan Galtung is Professor of Peace Studies, and the Director of Transcend. Professor Carl G. Jacobsen was Professor of Political Science (International Affairs and Conflict Studies), Director of Eurasian Security Studies ORU, at Carleton University, and Director of the Independent Committee on War Crimes in the Balkans. He died last year. Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen is Carl's son. He is the co-director of Transcend, based in Canada.

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