A Just Peace Ethic Primer: Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence - Paperback

by Eli S. McCarthy (Editor), Eli S. McCarthy (Contribution by), Gerald W. Schlabach (Contribution by)

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.

Front Jacket

Religion / Ethics / Political Science / Peace Studies

This wonderful collection . . . 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

This volume will inspire readers to imagine a new agenda for subverting systems of violence both in the United States and around the world.--Nichole M. Flores, assistant professor of practical ethics, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia The just peace movement offers a critical shift in focus and imagination. Recognizing that all life is sacred and that 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 the 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.

The essays that comprise A Just Peace Ethic Primer 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 implementing a creative vision of sustainable peace.

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.

Contributors: John Ashworth, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Daniel Cosacchi, Mel Duncan, Peggy Faw Gish, Leo Guardado, José Henríquez Leiva, Léocadie Lushombo, Eli S. McCarthy, Alex Mikulich, Jasmin Nario-Galace, Nancy M. Rourke, Gerald W. Schlabach, Maria J. Stephan, Teresia Wamũyũ Wachira

--James F. Keenan, SJ, Canisius Professor and director of the Jesuit Institute, Theology Department, Boston College

Back Jacket

Religion / Ethics / Political Science / Peace Studies

"This wonderful collection . . . 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

"This volume will inspire readers to imagine a new agenda for subverting systems of violence both in the United States and around the world."--Nichole M. Flores, assistant professor of practical ethics, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia The just peace movement offers a critical shift in focus and imagination. Recognizing that all life is sacred and that 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 the 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.

The essays that comprise A Just Peace Ethic Primer 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 implementing a creative vision of sustainable peace.

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.

Contributors: John Ashworth, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Daniel Cosacchi, Mel Duncan, Peggy Faw Gish, Leo Guardado, José Henríquez Leiva, Léocadie Lushombo, Eli S. McCarthy, Alex Mikulich, Jasmin Nario-Galace, Nancy M. Rourke, Gerald W. Schlabach, Maria J. Stephan, Teresia Wamũyũ Wachira

Author Biography

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.