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Title Cultivating peace : contexts, practices and multidimensional models / edited by Helen Ware [and others]
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 382 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF ACRONYMS; INTRODUCTION; WHAT DOES THE PERSON ON THE STREET CORNER WANT?GROWING PEACE THROUGH DEMOCRACY; MOBILISING INSURGENTS; FRAMING VIOLENCE IN THE LIBERAL PEACE PARADIGM; REFRAMING PEACE; BUILDING PEACE IN POST-CONFLICT SOLOMON ISLANDS; THE BUSINESS SECTOR IN PEACE PROMOTION; EXPLORING MILITARIZATION, AID AND INDEPENDENCE IN SMALL ISLAND STATES; CONTRIBUTION OF COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE TO PEACE BUILDING IN NEPAL; A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO REFUGEE SETTLEMENTS; KEEPING COMMUNITY; THE MEDIATOR WHO PAYS DISPUTANTS; NON VIOLENT COMMUNICATION
COMMUNITIES AND MEDIAIN THE AFTERMATH OF CONFLICT DONOR-FUNDED NATURE/FOREST CONSERVATION PROJECTS; THE PERMANENT EVOLUTION OF DEMOCRACY; THE AFRICAN PEACE AND SECURITY ARCHITECTURE; DISARMING HEARTS, MINDS AND SOULS IN POST-CONFLICT CÔTE D'IVOIRE; TWO KINDS OF PEACE; CONTRIBUTORS
Summary Cultivating Peace: Contexts, Practices and Multidimensional Models moves away from negative connotations associated with the concept of post-conflict peacebuilding. It embraces a multiplicity of trans-disciplinary approaches to peacebuilding, mostly coinciding with the eco-horticultural metaphor of peace cultivation. Ultimately, the idea of cultivating peace embodies love and compassion, while utilising local knowledge, expertise and wisdom to do no harm. Using various case studies from acros ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Peace-building -- Congresses
Conflict management -- Congresses
Peace studies & conflict resolution.
Peacekeeping operations.
Social issues: war & conflict issues (Children's -- Teenage)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Conflict management
Peace-building
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Ware, Helen
ISBN 9781443859318
1443859311