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Bezig met laden... Another Way: Positive Response to Contemporary Violencedoor Adam Curle
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The end of the Cold War has not brought peace to the planet as was briefly hoped. Instead, horrifying and often seemingly pointless violence is all too common. Curle argues that much contemporary violence stems from alienation. Political processes alone cannot end such violence. Lasting peace requires "widespread changes of heart."[p. 5] Based largely on his experiences in the former Yugoslavia, Curle argues that such changes are possible, and offers a model approach to peacemaking in an era of alienation.urle reviews forms and sources of violent conflict from early history to current times. While human nature has remained the same, contexts have changed drastically, and so then has the nature of violence. He discusses the violence of states and the role that global militarization plays in increasing violence. The speed of social and technological change has also played a role in producing modern forms of violence. Curle argues that these factors have left many people alienated from society and their common humanity. Alienated people have a damaged sense of relatedness to others, and so are particularly prone to unpeaceful relations and violence. Many of us do not know how to transform our capacity as human beings to hurt each other, into a potential to heal. Whether we are soldiers in uniform mandated to keep the peace, or diplomats involved in delicate negotiations or advisers counselling the abused, or couples struggling to save a relationship---what we are short of is a set of principles to guide us through the maze of feelings that violence produces---feelings that have evolved through eons of development as Homo Sapiens. What Adam Curle sets out in this book are the foundations of such a set of principles. Most fundamentally he shows us through the example of his work in Croatia that change takes place not because of Treaties, or inventions, or rationally devised solutions, but through the transformation of the individual. Adam Curle has held chairs in psychology, education, development studies and peace studies in the Universities of Exeter, Ghana, Harvard and Bradford. He has worked as a mediator and peace activist in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ireland, Sri Lanka and most recently in the former Yugoslavia geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)303.6Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Social Processes Conflict and conflict resolution ; ViolenceLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: Geen beoordelingen.Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |