Transforming Terror : Remembering the Soul of the World / Karin Lofthus Carrington, Susan Griffin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carrington, Karin Lofthus, Editor.

Griffin, Susan, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Prevention.

Terrorism--Psychological aspects.

Terrorism.

Terror--Prevention.

Terror.

Violence.

Emotional intelligence.

Local Subjects:

Violence--Prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This inspired collection offers a new paradigm for moving the world beyond violence as the first, and often only, response to violence. Through essays and poetry, prayers and meditations, Transforming Terror powerfully demonstrates that terrorist violence-defined here as any attack on unarmed civilians-can never be stopped by a return to the thinking that created it. A diverse array of contributors-writers, healers, spiritual and political leaders, scientists, and activists, including Desmond Tutu, Huston Smith, Riane Eisler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amos Oz, Fatema Mernissi, Fritjof Capra, George Lakoff, Mahmoud Darwish, Terry Tempest Williams, and Jack Kornfield-considers how we might transform the conditions that produce terrorist acts and bring true healing to the victims of these acts. Broadly encompassing both the Islamic and Western worlds, the book explores the nature of consciousness and offers a blueprint for change that makes peace possible. From unforgettable firsthand accounts of terrorism, the book draws us into awareness of our ecological and economic interdependence, the need for connectedness, and the innate human capacity for compassion.

Contents:

Transforming Terror

Front matter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE. A Deeper Look

CHAPTER 1. Terror and Terrorism

Civilian casualties: The New Frontline

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

Statement of the Under-Secretary-General at the Open Meeting of the Security Council on Protection Civilians in Armed Conflict, June 28, 2006

U.S. Nuclear Terrorism

The Truth of War

Afternoon

A World Free of Nuclear Weapons

The First Car Bomb

Radiation and Children: The Ignored Victims

Casida of the Lament

An Injured Child

Remarks at the Stockholm International Forum on Genocide Prevention

Beyond the War on Terror: Understanding Reflexive Thought

The American Psyche after September 11

On Religion and Terrorism

The Spiritual Source of Islam

Terrorism: Theirs and Ours

Solidarity Against All Forms of Terrorism

Lynched for No Offense

Fatwa Issued on July 28, 2005; The Fiqh Council of North America

Invocation for the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for 9/11

I Have Come to This Earth

CHAPTER 2. An Unbearable Heartache: Trauma, Violence, and Memory

The Aftermath of Violence: Trauma and Recovery

Writings for a Liberation Psychology

Ghosts and Echoes: Reflections after 9/11

Be Ahead of All Parting

The Deeper Wound

The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda

Just One Story

Unfolding

The Hidden Damage of Nuclear Weapons

The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade

Under Bombardment in Beirut

I Just Missed the Bus and I'll Be Late for Work

Interrupted Subjects

Not a Pass

Peace

Shantideva's Prayer: Buddhist Traditional Prayer (translated by the Dalai Lama)

We Are Fields before Each Other

CHAPTER 3. Denial, Dogma, and the Heroic Myth

How to Cure a Fanatic

The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

A Ritual to Read to Each Other

Terror Comes Full Circle

He Would Need Some Shoes

Thoughts for the Times on War and Death

Our Culture's Divided Soul

The Denial of Death

The Verbal Weapon of Mass Destruction

Speech Opposing the Post-9/11 Use of Force Pact, September 14, 2001

Against Certainty

Another Kind of Heroism

On Vulnerability and the Sukkah of Shalom

PART TWO. Paths to Transformation0

CHAPTER 4. In a Dark Time: The Wisdom in Grief, Fear, and Despair

Healing Through the Dark Emotions in an Age of Global Threat

An Interview by David Montenegro

In a Dark Time

Thoughts in the Presence of Fear

The Testing-Tree

Seeing Red: In a Dark Night of The American Soul

A Terrible Love of War

Morphologies of Silence

overcoming cruelty

Eulogy for The Martyred Children

CHAPTER 5. Truth Telling and Justice

Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Adopted and proclaimed December 10, 1948, by the General Assembly of the United Nations, resolution 217 A (III)

Naming the Perpetrator

There Was no Farewell

Facing the Inferno: Transforming Terror into Tenderness

Half-life of a Despot

Moby Dick

Crises of the Republic

A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers)

The Tenacity of Memory (La Tenacidad de la Memoria)

Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers

Rape as a War Crime

Facing into Truth: The Most Reverend Frank T. Griswold, XXV Presiding Bishop and Primate, the Episcopal Church, USA

Zoroastrian Prayer

CHAPTER 6. Reclaiming Our Selves: Gender and Violence

Terror, Domination, and Partnership

The Crowned Cannibals

The Mind as Erotic Weapon

The Birth of Plea sure

A Woman's Side of the Story

Please Listen to the Women of Iraq

Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan

Behind Bars

Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link between Masculinity and Violence

She Cannot Be Lost to Me

Joining Prayers

Serenity

Acceptance Speech, Nobel Peace Prize

Prayer of The Virgin of Guadalupe

CHAPTER 7. Compassion and the Interdependence of Peace

Compassion as the pillar of World Peace: His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

From Them to Us

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

Falling Bodies

Forgive Us

Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Sustainability, Security, and Peace

Wilenska

On Forgiveness

Good Friday World

A Heart as Wide as the World

A Task

The Table of Peace

The Courage to Wait

Buddhist Meditation on Compassion

In My Soul

CHAPTER 8. Paths to Transformation

Hope in The Dark

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Compassion

Nonviolence: Weapon of the Brave, Weapon of the Future

Ahimsa or the Way of Nonviolence

Candles in Babylon

On Citizen Diplomacy

A New World Diplomacy

On Courage and Resistance

War Crimes Tribunal May End Impurity but They Can't Heal Hatred

The Courage to Love

At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace

The Greatest Danger

Thanks but No Thanks

The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

The Generation of Trust

Contributor Biographies

Credits

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

9786613278111

9781283278119

1283278111

9780520949454

0520949455

OCLC:

710975198