A just peace ethic primer : building sustainable peace and breaking cycles of violence / Eli S. McCarthy, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCarthy, Eli Sasaran, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Peace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Georgetown University Press, [2020]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

How can we build a more sustainable peace? Why do we so often get stuck in vicious cycles of violence even with good intentions? How do we become better at constructively engaging conflict? By reflecting on cases of contemporary issues and conflicts, Just Peace Ethic enables us to address these pressing questions and see more clearly the value of a just peace ethic. Eli McCarthy's edited book informs people about an emerging just peace ethic and deepens the imagination about how it might provide fruitful moral guidance for various types of situations, taking a case-based approach to exploring and teaching it. Although there are articulations of just peace approaches, there is still a lack of scholarship illustrating how such an approach might function with particular cases. McCarthy and contributors address this gap by providing essays that apply and refine a virtue-based just peace ethic in the context of particular cases, beginning with three chapters that each address a facet of just peace, written by known scholars. Case studies follow, addressing issues internationally, among them the death penalty, immigration, racism in the US, non-state terrorism, the conflicts in South Sudan, El Salvador, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and The Philippines. This book has potential course adoption appeal, as it is designed for learning about the just peace ethic and is written approachably.

Contents:

Framing essays

A 'manual' for escaping our vicious cycles : practical guidance from the Sermon on the Mount for a just peace ethic / Gerald Schlabach

Catholic tradition on peace, war, and just peace / Lisa Sowle Cahill

Just peace ethic : a virtue-based approach / Eli S. McCarthy

Case studies

U.S. domestic cases

Just peace, just sanctuary : immigration and ecclesial nonviolence / Leo Guardado

Environmental justice : may justice and peace flow like a river / Nancy M. Rourke

Ending the death penalty in the United States : one step toward a just peace / Daniel Cosacchi

Becoming authentically Catholic and truly black : on the condition of the possibility of a just peace approach to anti-black violence / Alex Mikulich

International cases

Bridging people power and peacebuilding to make just peace possible / Maria J. Stephan

Applying just peace in South Sudan / Mel Duncan and John Ashworth

A just peace approach to address gang violence in El Salvador / Jose Henríquez Leiva

ISIS and ezidis : using just peace approaches / Peggy Faw Gish

Virtue-based justice peace approach and the challenges of rape as a weapon of war : case of the Democratic Republic of Congo / Leo Lushombo

Making just peace a reality in Kenya : a new 'flavour' to peacebuilding / Teresia Wamuyu Wachira

Women count for peace : women's engagement in track 2 diplomacy of the Mindanao peace process / Jasmin Nario-Galace

Conclusion and next steps.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62616-757-5

OCLC:

1144802549