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Overcoming Violence in Transdisciplinary Perspective: A Praxis Anthology of Peace represents a transgressive transdisciplinary privileging of practice as the key to analytical peace research. This praxis-based approach, ala Paulo Freire, is theory informed practice and practice informed theory aimed at human liberation.

In addressing the most pressing wicked problems of our time, Overcoming Violence in Transdisciplinary Perspective is countercultural in its presentation of innovative scholarship on the theory and practice of nonviolent peace. The interplay of the contributions in this edited volume provides a critical reappraisal of the received assumptions about peace work, definitions of peace and peacework, and the state of peace education practice today.

While this book, of course, represents a complex interplay of competing ideas, the approaches underscored in this timely edited volume are critically important contributions to the growing fields of peace, conflict, and justice studies. This volume should be shared and discussed widely among both students and faculty in philosophy, sociology, psychology, anthropology, justice studies, peace studies, and international studies… not to forget all programmes aimed at transforming destructive social conflict and developing human flourishing.

Contents

Contributors

Foreword
Douglas P Fry

Introduction
Jeremy A Rinker

1. Killing Time: Environmental Crimes and the
Restoration of the Future
Randall Amster

2. Restoring Trust in the Self Through Failure: An exploration of
Singing as Reflective Practice and its Role in
Nonviolent Social Change
Lauren M Levesque

3. (Re)Claiming Human Dignity
Amanda Singer

4. Mobilising Shared Strengths for Collective Peacebuilding
Maureen Porter et al

5. Is an Oath to Hitler also an Oath to God?
The Debate about Loyalty Oaths in Germany: 1934-45
Edmund Pries

6. Re-defining Justice and Creating Pathways for Healing:
The Limits of the US Legal System and the Promise of
Politicised Healing
David Anderson Hooker & Sheila A Bedi

7. Can Photography Restore Healing and Justice in Appalachia?
Joe Cole

8. Young Peacebuilders as Architects of Knowledge:
Challenging Traditional Paradigms
Katrina Leclerc & Shadi Rouhshahbaz

9. The National Chief Imam of Ghana: Religious Leadership Peacebuilding in an Emerging Democracy
Okechukwu C Iheduru

10. ‘Dear Friend’: The Practice of Nonviolence in Gandhi’s Letters to Hitler
Kelly Rae Kraemer

11 Postcolonial Narrative as Peace Narrative?
The Role of History Textbooks in Northern Ireland
and India
Melissa DeLury

12 Resistance and Repression Responding to Hate Groups on Campus
Dean J Johnson & Liam Oliver Lair

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