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Peace warrior : a memoir from the front / Daniel L. Buttry.
Van Pelt Library BX6495.B84 A4 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buttry, Daniel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buttry, Daniel.
- Baptists--Clergy--Biography.
- Baptists.
- Baptists--Clergy.
- Pacifists--Biography.
- Pacifists.
- Peace-building--Religious aspects--Baptists.
- Peace-building.
- Conflict management--Religious aspects--Baptists.
- Conflict management.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 283 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2013].
- Summary:
- Born into the warrior culture of a military family, Daniel Buttry's Christian faith led him to become a nonviolent activist. Peace Warrior provides an inside, firsthand look at peace training, nonviolent struggle, and mediation in conflict zones around the world. Buttry reveals the stories behind news headlines of conflicts or peace accords. He escorts the reader into the shadowy world of guerilla leaders, traumatized victims, and ordinary people who become agents of peace against incredible odds. Exploring the labyrinthine processes to bring peace to two particular longstanding armed conflicts in Asia, Buttry provides a peek into historical events, and their behind-the-scenes developments. He shares freely the hopes, fears, frustrations, courage, failures, successes, humor, and faith that are all a part of making a difference for peace at the fault lines of violent conflict. He takes us into the challenging world of inter-faith peacemaking at a time when religious differences are highlighted in many of our global conflicts. Peace Warrior is set at the front lines of conflict, but is infused with a bright hope from Buttry's work alongside little-known heroes who have built peace amid the harshest environments. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Making of a Peace Warrior 1
- 2 Baptisms of Fire 18
- 3 The Burma Peace Initiative 37
- 4 The Naga Peace Initiative 59
- 5 Around the World 81
- 6 Humor, Miracles, and the Home Front 107
- 7 Toolbox 137
- 8 Peace on the Streets 165
- 9 Jihad for Salaam 181
- 10 Naga Breakthrough 206
- 11 Deep Wells and Old Warriors 217.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0881464007
- 9780881464009
- OCLC:
- 806521249
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