People's peace : prospects for a human future / edited by Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines.

ISBN:

9780815654865

Title:

Author:

Saikia, Yasmin, editor.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 394 pages)

Series:

Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution

Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution.

Contents:

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Introduction -- Part One. Religion in Action -- 1. Inspiring Peace: Religious Peacebuilding from Local to Global -- 2. The Power of Peace: The Moral and Political Advantages of Nonviolence -- 3. The Spiritual Balance of Peace in the Red Stick War, 1813-1814 -- 4. Exegeting Peace from Nagpur -- 5. Peace, Reconciliation, and Forgiveness: Early Rabbinic Stories and Their Implications for People's Peace -- 6. Coming Together in Peace: Community and Informality in Cairo

7. The Iberian Empires: Religious Tolerance in Intolerant Places and from Unexpected People -- Part Two. People in Action -- 8. "US out of El Salvador!" The Maryknoll Sisters and the Transnational Struggle for Human Rights -- 9. Human Rights City Initiatives as a People's Peace Process -- 10. Is Ferguson the Same as Gaza? Diaspora Grassroots Activism and Intersectional Alliances -- 11. Peacemaking at the Intersection of the Local and Global in Bali -- 12. People's Peace at Stake: An Assamese Experience -- Conclusion: Looking Ahead, People and Peace in the Future -- Notes -- Bibliography

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Subject Term:

Peace -- Social aspects.

Conflict management -- Social aspects.

Paix -- Aspect social.

Gestion des conflits -- Aspect social.

POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Peace.

Peace -- Social aspects

Added Author:

Saikia, Yasmin,

Haines, Chad,

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?url=http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2125819

Publication Date:

2019

Publication Information:

Syracuse, New York :

Syracuse University Press,

2019.

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Summary

People's Peace lays a solid foundation for the argument that global peace is possible because ordinary people are its architects. Saikia and Haines offer a unique and imaginative perspective on people's daily lives across the world as they struggle to create peace despite escalating political violence. The volume's focus on local and ordinary efforts highlights peace as a lived experience that goes beyond national and international peace efforts. In addition, the contributors' emphasis on the role of religion as a catalyst for peace moves away from the usual depiction of religion as a source of divisiveness and conflict.

Spanning a range of humanities disciplines, the essays in this volume provide case studies of individuals defying authority or overcoming cultural stigmas to create peaceful relations in their communities. From investigating how ancient Jews established communal justice to exploring how black and white citizens in Ferguson, Missouri, are working to achieve racial harmony, the contributors find that people are acting independently of governments and institutions to identify everyday methods of coexisting with others. In putting these various approaches in dialogue with each other, this volume produces a theoretical intervention that shifts the study of peace away from national and international organizations and institutions toward locating successful peaceful efforts in the everyday lives of individuals.

Author Notes

Yasmin Saikia has held the Hardt-Nickachos Endowed Chair in Peace Studies since 2010 and is a professor of South Asian history at Arizona State University. She is the author of Fragmented Memories , which won the Srikanta Datta Best Book Award on Northeast India and the Social Sciences (2005), and Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh , which was honored with the Oral History Association Biennial Book Award in 2013.

Chad Haines is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor of religious studies and senior sustainability scholar at Arizona State University. He is the author of Nation, Territory and Globalization in Pakistan: Traversing the Margins (2012) and a forthcoming volume on Muslim modernities, urbanism, and everyday ethics in Cairo, Islamabad, and Dubai.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

According to the publisher's website, this collection of essays "lays a solid foundation for the argument that global peace is possible because ordinary people are its architects." The notion is interesting, but ultimately the book is unconvincing. The essays explain the concept of "people's peace" and illustrate it with case studies ranging from the ancient world to current times. The general approach to the subject is through the humanities, on the theory that "peace" cannot be measured in a scientific manner. Although the overall argument is weak, the concept of "people's peace" has merit, and advances understanding of what peace might be and how one can influence its achievement. The book includes ample endnotes and has an extensive bibliography, but the theoretical nature of the collection makes it most appropriate for specialists. Summing Up: Optional. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. --William J. Rafter, West Virginia University Libraries