So we’d all like a more peaceful world—no wars, no poverty, no more racism, no community disputes, no office tensions, no marital skirmishes. Lisa Schirch sets forth paths to such realities. In fact, she points a way to more than the absence of conflict.
She foresees just peace—a sustainable state of affairs because it is a peace which insists on justice. Chapters include:
Defining Strategic Peacebuilding
Values for Peacebuilding
An Overview of Peacebuilding Processes
Waging Conflict Nonviolently
Reducing Direct Violence
Transforming Relationships
And more!
Schirch singles out four critical actions that must be undertaken if peace is to take root at any level): ) waging conflict nonviolently, reducing direct violence, transforming relationships; and building capacity. From Schirch’s 15 years of experience as a peacebuilding consultant in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
“This Little Book is an attempt to bring together the various fields and activities related to peacebuilding to integrate them into one conceptual framework. At the core of this framework is the idea of strategic peacebuilding, an interdisciplinary, coordinated approach to building a sustainable justpeace—a peace with justice. Strategic peacebuilding requires clear goals. While the concept of justpeace is growing in popularity, few writings lay out the vision and practice of justpeace. One aim of this book is to promote the concept of justpeace as an overall goal or vision for peacebuilding.
Reviews:
A common language is one of the first basics of creating a constant, stable change in any kind of transformation, especially in a conflict situation.
This is the first time that I have found a book that considers different approaches and definitions of peace related work in one book and in a clear, easy to understand framework.
“The Little Book of Strategic Peacebuilding” defines and summarizes Peacebuilding in a way that enables practitioners and social agents to speak the same language and enables us to deliver a clear consistent message that can be easily conveyed to the public.
The author brings together many aspects of Peacebuilding and helps us find ways to initiate systematic strategies that can reduce and eventually eliminate cycles of violence. The book enables us to understand, in a broader sense, the framework that needs to be in place in order to create a change.
While reading and using this book I was introduced to several new approaches in the field of Peacebuilding. This helped me focus on approaches that fit the context I am working in (the Israeli-Palestinian conflict), and find new, innovative ways to bring hope that change can take place even in places and during times that it seems next to impossible.
This is “a must have” book for anyone who is interested in creating a transformation in their environment and working towards holistic well-being. (Amazon reviewer, 2005)
This book is an amazing contribution to the peacebuliding field within the conflict analysis and resolution. I recommend it 100 % Thank you Lisa for this contribution to the field. (Amazon reviewer, 2012)
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