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Towards a New Dharma of Peace Building Conflict Transformations and Alternative Planetary Futures
This volume deals with a new Dharma of peacebuilding and conflict transformations, drawing on the world's philosophical, religious, and spiritual...
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Toward a New Dharma of Peace, Health, and Global Well-Being
Peace is generally seen as absence of conflict, like health is seen as absence of disease. However, when we review Vedic literature, peace, and...
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Neurological Insights in Peace Building: Towards an Indian Appropriation
Although science is blamed for the arms race and the nuclear weapons that largely threaten the world peace, there are also observations to the...
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Sustainable Peace: Vulnerability, Risk, and the New World Environment
Peace, as with all other processes that sustain life and well-being on the planet, needs to be sustainable.
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Towards a New Dharma and Ubuntu of Peace Building: African Perspectives
A look at the world today, north and south, east and west, portrays an array of events that have filled humankind with existential dread. There is...
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Rastafari Insights into Peace-building and Sustainable Development
This chapter examines Rastafari insights on peace-building, love and harmony towards promoting sustainable development and nation-building in...
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Develo** Transformatively: Religion and Peace Mediation in Nigeria
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 sets ambitious targets for peace, inclusivity, and justice. Achieving these targets in many parts of the world...
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Peace is not Elusive: A Case Study of Mediation for Peace Between Colombian Government and FARC by the Art of Living
The Art of Living not only teaches values of universal goodwill, inclusiveness, and love for humanity but also is instrumental in resolving many...
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Conflict Transformation and Peace Initiative in a Cross-Cultural Context
Conflicts are as much a part of any society as its members themselves. Peace too is an important phenomenon in the society.
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Islam, Conflict, Peace and Security in Africa
Many countries in Africa have not experienced enduring peace and stability. Internal conflicts have bedevilled countries such as South Africa,...
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The Bible, Peace Building and Sustainable Development in Africa
No society can experience sustainable development without peace. Thus, in a world greatly stricken by political, economic, social and religious...
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Global Peace and Development: Toward a New Anthropology and Philosophy of World Spheres
Peace is linked with development—development which is not destructive but constructive. Peace and development start with each one of us and it...
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Religion, Feminist Peace, and Security in Nigeria and Uganda
This chapter examines feminist peace and security understanding and practices within religious institutions in Africa using SDG16 as a benchmark....
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Reclaiming Everyday Peace in the Micro-Spaces in Burundi
This study uses the bottom-up peacebuilding approach and the notion of everyday peace to assess the impact of peacebuilding interventions in Burundi,...
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Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts Interreligious Perspectives
This volume brings together 11 experts from a range of religious backgrounds, to consider how each tradition has interpreted matters of violence and...
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Xenophobia, Interfaith Networks, Peace Building and Development in Botswana
The chapter uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the correlation of xenophobia, interfaith networks, peace building and development in...
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Traditional Leaders and the Quest for Sustainable Peace in Kenya
This chapter examines African traditional leaders’ role in realizing Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16. Using various case studies and reports on...
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Violence and Peace in the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa
This chapter introduces the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa in the contexts of South Asian culture and Sanskrit literary history. Both texts narrate great...
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Building Resilience and Everyday Peace at the Micro-Levels in South Sudan
An argument in peacebuilding holds that contacts between grassroots actors in a context of armed conflict can reduce prejudice, improve intergroup...
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Religion and Peacebuilding in Tanzania: Institutionalisation of Interfaith Peace Committee
Tanzania is generally a peaceful country. Its peaceful nature resulted from a successful nation-building project initiated by the post-independent...