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Highlights
- This guide to nonviolent conflict resolution presents thirty methods of maintaining or achieving peace, each with an in-depth case study.
- About the Author: J. Frederick Arment is director of International Cities of Peace and a founder of the Dayton International Peace Museum.
- 271 Pages
- Social Science, Violence in Society
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About the Book
"This guide delves deeply into the motivations of peacemakers to find the skills, traits and values that underlay the methods and strategies of nonviolence. Thirty nonviolent methods are introduced through inspiring stories that reveal how seemingly intractable conflicts were transformed into conditions free from the ravages of violence. This work is highly relevant, practical, innovative, accessible, yet scholarly"--Provided by publisher.Book Synopsis
This guide to nonviolent conflict resolution presents thirty methods of maintaining or achieving peace, each with an in-depth case study. Methods covered, and their real-world applications, include the art of diplomacy (the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords), fair trade (the 1997 fair trade certification agreement), civil disobedience (the civil rights movement in the United States), humanitarianism (the rescue of the Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust), the rule of law (the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia), and peace education (the Nobel Peace Prize), among many others. It concludes with a summary of the methods and the virtues of peace.
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Review Quotes
"presents a survey of methods of attaining or advocating peace through nonviolent means"-Reference & Research Book News.
About the Author
J. Frederick Arment is director of International Cities of Peace and a founder of the Dayton International Peace Museum.