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Review
Since the United Nations launched the 'culture of peace' to much fanfare but little tangible result, the idea of a culture that would be more conducive to peace than war (which would seem to be an inevitable result of the culture we have today), has taken hold, and that is very helpful. If further proof of that were needed (and unless you are in the peace profession it probably is), this book demonstrates that there is a 'field' of peace that is there to help people in all walks of life to understand and indeed contribute their bit, whatever it may be, to peace. There could hardly be a more needed development, and this book, with its diversity and yet its overriding focus on the elusive dream of peace, is a great contribution to it. I would like to see it in every school library and in the mind and heart of every child. --Michael N. Nagler, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; author of The Search for a Nonviolent Future --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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About the Authors
Elavie Ndura-Ouédraogo is Associate Professor of Educational Transformation at George Mason University. Her publications have appeared in forums including Harvard Educational Review and Multicultural Perspectives. She co-authored 147 Tips for Teaching Peace and Reconciliation (Atwood Publishing, 2009) and co-edited Seeds of New Hope: Pan-African Peace Studies for the 21st Century (Africa World Press, 2009).
Randall Amster, Professor of Peace Studies at Prescott College, received his PhD in Justice Studies from Arizona State University. He is the author of Lost in Space: The Criminalization, Globalization, and Urban Ecology of Homelessness (LFB Scholarly, 2008), and serves as Executive Director of the Peace & Justice Studies Association.
Reviews
“Building Cultures of Peace is an immensely rich, creative, and, above all, an optimistic book. The fifteen very competent chapters approach the issue of a culture of peace based on social justice and equity, as opposed to the ubiquitous culture of violence. Here are concrete programs and ideas; now let us all go out, do it, and get ever higher in the knowledge, skills and art of building peace.”
—Johan Galtung, Founder, dr hc mult, TRANSCEND: A Peace, Development
and Environment Network
“Since the United Nations launched the “culture of peace” to much fanfare but little tangible result, the idea of a culture that would be more conducive to peace than war (which would seem to be an inevitable result of the culture we have today), has taken hold, and that is very helpful. If further proof of that were needed (and unless you are in the peace profession it probably is), this book demonstrates that there is a ‘field’ of peace that is there to help people in all walks of life to understand and indeed contribute their bit, whatever it may be, to peace. There could hardly be a more needed development, and this book, with its diversity and yet its overriding focus on the elusive dream of peace, is a great contribution to it. I would like to see it in every school library — and in the mind and heart of every child.”
—Michael N. Nagler, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; author of The Search for a Nonviolent Future
From Eradicating Differences: The Treatment of Minorities in Nazi-Dominated Europe
This collection of essays presents original research on Nazi imperial policies toward various non-Jewish minorities in Europe. Adding definition to the hitherto vague categories of the Holocaust´s ‘other victims’ and ‘collaborators,’ this important volume illuminates how the Nazi ideologies of anti-Semitism and racism translated into a nefarious practice of divide et impera. Nazi rule across Europe exacerbated and instigated conflicts among minorities, fanning the flames of the Holocaust and seeding interethnic strife that persists to this day….Essential reading for those interested in the history of mass violence in twentieth century Europe.
...Wendy Lower, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Author of Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine