The moral architecture of world peace : Nobel laureates discuss our global future / Helena Cobban.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cobban, Helena

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace.

Pacifists--Biography.

Pacifists.

Political violence--Prevention.

Political violence.

Nobel Prizes.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2000.

Summary:

Based on the views expressed by a contingent of Nobel Peace Prize laureates--including the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and East Timorese independence activist Jos Ramos-Horta--who gathered at the University of Virginia in 1998, this book sketches a new international paradigm of peace. 24 illustrations.

Contents:

1. A Gathering of Framers of the Future Global Culture 1

2. The Dalai Lama and the Need for Internal and External Disarmament 17

3. The Individual and the Totalitarian State: Aung San Suu Kyi and the Question of Human Rights in Burma 34

4. The Challenge from the Indigenous World: The Powerful Voice of Rigoberta Menchu Tum 59

5. Resisting the Domination of Stronger Neighbors: Jose Ramos-Horta on East Timor and the Dalai Lama on Tibet 80

6. Transforming Systems of Violence at the Personal Level: Betty Williams and the Rehabilitation of Survivors of Violence 104

7. Transforming Systems of Violence at the Intergroup Level: Desmond Tutu and Reconciliation in South Africa 128

8. Oscar Arias Sanchez and Structural Aspects of the Struggle for Human Security 151

9. Reconciliation in Action: Bobby Muller and the Anti-Landmine Campaign 180

10. A New Model for Global Action: Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines 203

11. Toward a Moral Architecture for World Peace 223

Appendix Recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize 237.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0813919878

OCLC:

42780677