{"product_id":"just-peace-ethic-primer-building-sustainable-peace-and-breaking-cycles-of-violence-paperback","title":"A Just Peace Ethic Primer: Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEli S. McCarthy\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eEli S. McCarthy\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eGerald W. Schlabach\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003ci\u003eA Just Peace Ethic Primer\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates a moral framework behind this praxis and proves its versatility in global contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith essays by a diverse group of scholars, \u003ci\u003eA Just Peace Ethic Primer\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Just Peace Ethic Primer\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReligion \/ Ethics \/ Political Science \/ Peace Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/i\u003e--\u003cb\u003eJames F. Keenan, SJ, \u003c\/b\u003eCanisius Professor and director of the Jesuit Institute, Theology Department, Boston College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis volume will inspire readers to imagine a new agenda for subverting systems of violence both in the United States and around the world.\u003c\/i\u003e--\u003cb\u003eNichole M. Flores, \u003c\/b\u003eassistant 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. \u003ci\u003eA Just Peace Ethic Primer\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates a moral framework behind this praxis and proves its versatility in global contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays that comprise \u003ci\u003eA Just Peace Ethic Primer\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Just Peace Ethic Primer\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEli S. McCarthy\u003c\/b\u003e teaches justice and peace studies at Georgetown University and coordinates the DC Peace Team. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBecoming Nonviolent Peacemakers: A Virtue Ethic for Catholic Social Teaching and U.S. Policy\u003c\/i\u003e and regularly engages in strategic advocacy for federal policy as the director of justice and peace for the Conference of Major Superiors of Men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e: 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\u003c\/p\u003e--James F. Keenan, SJ, Canisius Professor and director of the Jesuit Institute, Theology Department, Boston College\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReligion \/ Ethics \/ Political Science \/ Peace Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\"--\u003cb\u003eJames F. Keenan, SJ, \u003c\/b\u003eCanisius Professor and director of the Jesuit Institute, Theology Department, Boston College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"This volume will inspire readers to imagine a new agenda for subverting systems of violence both in the United States and around the world.\"\u003c\/i\u003e--\u003cb\u003eNichole M. Flores, \u003c\/b\u003eassistant 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. \u003ci\u003eA Just Peace Ethic Primer\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates a moral framework behind this praxis and proves its versatility in global contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays that comprise \u003ci\u003eA Just Peace Ethic Primer\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Just Peace Ethic Primer\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEli S. McCarthy\u003c\/b\u003e teaches justice and peace studies at Georgetown University and coordinates the DC Peace Team. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBecoming Nonviolent Peacemakers: A Virtue Ethic for Catholic Social Teaching and U.S. Policy\u003c\/i\u003e and regularly engages in strategic advocacy for federal policy as the director of justice and peace for the Conference of Major Superiors of Men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e: 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. 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