Global Solidarity Newsletter 6: New book "Searching for
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Global Solidarity Newsletter 6: New book "Searching for
Peace"
Global Solidarity Newsletter 6
http://www.globalsolidarity.npaid.org
May 10, 2000
This weeks Global Solidarity Newsletter includes a description of
"Searching for Peace", the latest publication by Johan Galtung, Carl
Jacobsen, Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen, and Finn Tschudi, together with
up-dates on the demonstrations by the Network of 38 People's
Organisations and students against the Asian Development Bank in
Thailand, guidelines for creating a fair, safe, and peaceful world,
and a new book on the global financial architecture and developing
countries.
All of this, and more, can be found on the web-site of the Coalition
for Global Solidarity and Social Development at
http://www.globalsolidarity.npaid.org where more than 20 new articles
have been added in the last week on globalisation, human rights, the
UN, peace and conflict, debt, and much, much more!
1) JUST RELEASED!
Searching for Peace; the Road to TRANSCEND
Johan Galtung and Carl G. Jacobsen
with Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen and Finn Tschudi
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1) Searching for Peace; the Road to TRANSCEND
Johan Galtung and Carl G. Jacobsen with Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen
and Finn Tschudi
Drawing on the TRANSCEND approach to peace-making, Searching for Peace
provides a comprehensive guide to conflict resolution. The TRANSCEND
method, now used by the UN as a guide to future conflict resolution
approaches, applies to all conflict constellations. It has been
applied to more than 40 recent and current violent conflict arenas,
charting found and yet-to-be-found paths to conflict resolution and
transcendence.
Searching for Peace provides a wide-ranging survey of past and present
approaches to violent conflict prevention. The book's extensive
analysis of the emergent conflict dynamics which, if not resolved,
threaten an even more violent twenty-first century, is as important as
its comprehensive look at past conflicts�it is for these that the new
TRANSCEND approach/method is crucially pertinent. The book critiques
the failures of recent peacekeeping and peacemaking efforts while
presenting the multi-decade research and arguments that underlie the
TRANSCEND approach. Aiming to include all participants in the peace
dialogue, TRANSCEND charts a better-opportunity alternative path to a
less violent future.
"..very interesting...a particular pleasure to read something not only
sensible but even hopeful on methods for moving towards some decent
outcome under what appear to be almost hopeless situations...[a] very
good read."
Noam Chomsky, Professor, M.I.T.
"..I read [the book] with absorbing interest. The sections on conflict
resolution are especially perceptive. So is the discussion of the war
culture... Thank you for a fine contribution to peace science."
Anatol Rapoport, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
"What a fascinating book! This highly condensed and powerful overview
of the past and present realpolitik of peacemaking during continuous
historical struggles between national identity and state integrity,
opens up major new ways to think about the seemingly intractable
problems of state-nation interface. The Transcend method... takes its
place as a highly significant strategy in the rich array of
peacebuilding techniques... This book is a must-read for scholars,
practitioners, policy-makers�and peace activists!"
Elise Boulding, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Dartmouth College,
and past Secretary-General of the International Peace Research
Association.
Searching for Peace; the Road to TRANSCEND
London: Pluto, 2000
Table of Contents:
Preface
Part 1: Conflict Resolution: Perspectives and Assumptions
1.1 Peace-making as Realpolitik
1.2 Our War Culture's Defining Parameters: Their Essence; Their
Ramifications (external; domestic; 'racism'; 'borders'; 'international
law')
Part 2: Conflict Formations for the 21st Century
2.1 Exiting the 20th Century, Entering the 21st: Some Basic
Conflict Formations
2.2 Russia-China: The New "Strategic Partnership"
2.3 New-Century Eurasian Conflict Dynamics
2.4 East Asia/South China Sea: 21st Century Conflict Dynamics
Part 3: A Practice of Peace: The TRANSCEND Approach
3.1 TRANSCEND: 40 Years, 40 Conflicts
3.2 40 Conflicts; 40 Perspectives
3.3 The State/Nation Dialectic: Some Tentative Conclusions
3.4 Crafting Peace: On the Theory of the TRANSCEND Approach
In Lieu of a Conclusion: Other Thoughts Towards a Road-Map
4.1 Beyond Mediation
4.2 Beyond Security
Johan Galtung is Director of TRANSCEND and Professor of Peace Studies.
Carl G. Jacobsen is Professor of International and Conflict/Peace
Studies and Director of Eurasian Security Studies at Carleton
University
Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen is Director and Satyagrahi of ICL/Praxis
for Peace, Dir. of the Coalition for Global Solidarity, and Board
member and Chair of TRANSCEND's Peace Actor Empowerment program.
Finn Tschudi is Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo.
Pluto Press, April 2000 (available 1st week of April; May 2000 in
North America)
Hardback 0 7453 1614 X: 45 pounds sterling; Paperback 0 7453 1613 1:
14,99 pounds sterling
May be ordered on-line at http://www.plutobooks.com;
US: Stylus Publishing, 22883 Quicksilver Drive, Sterling, VA
20166-2012; [email protected];
tel: 1-713-661-1581 ir 1-800-232-0223.
Germany: Missing Link, Versandbuchhandlung, Westerstrasse 114-116,
28199 Bremen;
[email protected]; tel: (0) 421-504348; fax: (0) 421-504316.
Japan:: United Publishers Services, Kenkyu-sha Building, 9 Kanda
Surugadai 2 Chrome, Chiyoda-Ku; tel: 3-3291-4541; fax: 3-3292-8610.
Canada: UBC Press; [email protected]; tel: 1-800-663-5714; fax:
1-800-565-3770.
South Africa: Phambili Agencies, PO Box 28680, Kensington 2101, S.A.;
tel: (011)-622-5591;
fax: (011)-622-5456.
Australia: Eleanor Brasch Enterprises, PO Box 586, Atarmon, NSW 2064
Australia;
[email protected]; tel: 612-9419-8717; fax: 612-9419-7930
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