CPP is very pleased to share information about the newest Philosophy of Peace volume from Brill:
Civility, Nonviolent Resistance, and the New Struggle for Social Justice
Amin Asfari, editor Volume 342
https://brill.com/view/title/56229?lang=en
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Essays on Ecology, Nature, Nonviolence, and Peace
Edited by Andrew Fiala, Fresno State University
The essays collected in The Peace of Nature and the Nature of Peace consider connections between ecology, environmental ethics, nonviolence, and philosophy of peace. Edited by Andrew Fiala, this book includes essays written by important scholars in the field of peace studies, pacifism, and nonviolence, including Michael Allen Fox, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, Bill Gay, and others. Topics include: ecological consciousness and nonviolence, environmental activism and peace activism, the environmental impact of militarism, native and indigenous peoples and peace, food ethics and nonviolence, and other topics.
The book should be of interest to scholars, students, and activists who are interested in the relationship between peace movements and environmentalism.
Peace Philosophy and Public Life: Commitments, Crises, and Concepts for Engaged Thinking. Moses, Greg and Gail Presbey (Eds.) Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2014, XVIII, 185 pp.
In these pages, you will likely grasp the utility, not just the curiosity, of reconsidering any number of ways in which we speak and think, including what we mean by “we” when discussing foreign affairs, what we mean by “nationalism,” by “terrorism,” or by “humanitarianism.” Why do we assume that forgiveness has no place in public policy while overlooking those cases in which we unwittingly demand and expect it? We reject arguments from authority as consumers and voters but not—this book suggests—when we listen to law enforcement. Why? — View David Swanson’s Foreword to Peace Philosophy and Public Life at “Let’s Try Democracy.”
Video of Peace and Public Life Conference (Austin, TX)
To a world assaulted by private interests, this book argues that peace must be a public thing. Distinguished philosophers of peace have always worked publicly for public results. Opposing nuclear proliferation, organizing communities of the disinherited, challenging violence within status quo establishments, such are the legacies of truly engaged philosophers of peace. This volume remembers those legacies, reviews the promise of critical thinking for crises today, and expands the free range of thinking needed to create more mindful and peaceful relations.
With essays by committed peace philosophers, this volume shows how public engagement has been a significant feature of peace philosophers such as Camus, Sartre, Dewey, and Dorothy Day. Today we also confront historical opportunities to transform practices for immigration, police interrogation, and mental health, as we seek to sustain democracies of increasing multicultural diversity. In such cases our authors consider points of view developed by renowned thinkers such as Weil, Mouffe, Conway, and Martín-Baró. This volume also presents critical analysis of concepts for thinking about violence, reconsiders Plato’s philosophy of justice, and examines the role of ethical theory for liberation struggles such as Occupy!
When individuals, peoples and states struggle for recognition conflict often ensues. How can those who study peace have a positive impact on these struggles? Are there ways of channeling the conflicts that surround attempts to gain political and social recognition into constructive and nonviolent resolution? What tools can philosophers bring to these struggles that might help bring about such constructive and nonviolent resolutions?
The CPP Board and David Ritchie (Mercer University) invite contributions on the topic of nonviolent/peaceful struggle for recognition for a forthcoming volume David is editing entitled: Struggles for Recognition: Nonviolent Movements for Individual and Group Recognition.
It is envisioned that this volume will serve as a venue for publication of some of the papers presented at the 2012 Concerned Philosophers for Peace conference (“Struggles for Recognition”) but we invite contributions from other scholars whose works investigate peaceful and nonviolent struggles for political, social, or religious recognition.
This collection of essays will be submitted to Rodopi’s Philosophy of Peace series, which has historically published proceedings of Concerned Philosophers for Peace conferences. All submissions should address questions of war, peace, and nonviolent social & political change from a pluralist perspective.
Anyone interested in contributing a chapter should submit a paper, suitably prepared for blind review, to David Ritchie at ritchie_d@law.mercer.edu no later than 1 May 2013. Papers should be roughly 6000 words, including notes and bibliography, and should use the author-date system of referencing.
The following is a new publication which might interest you. At the moment it is offered with 30% discount until March 15th*. More information at info@rodopi.nl
Remembrance and Reconciliation
Edited by Rob Gildert and Dennis Rothermel
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2011. IX, 144 pp. (Value Inquiry Book Series 225)
ISBN: 978-90-420-3265-1 (Paper)
ISBN: 978-90-420-3266-8 (E-Book)
Online info: www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=VIBS+225
Remembrance and reconciliation envision intentional pathways out of conflict and toward peace. Remembrance retraces the junctures in the past that determined what a nation has become. Probing accountability for past actions establishes accountability for what continues to happen. Revisiting what a nation has done brings the perspectives of the peoples of those nations into view.
Contents
Dennis Rothermel: Preface
Remembrance
Dennis Rothermel: Introduction
Duane L. Cady: Remembering the Present
Eddy Souffrant: Vulnerability and Beneficence: Remembering the Past for the Sake of Peace
Joseph Betz: Homeland Security, Fiduciary Care, and Duties to Foreign Nationals
Joseph C. Kunkel: Forgetting and Not Reconciling Hiroshima
Reconciliation
Dennis Rothermel: Introduction
Robert Paul Churchill: Compassion and Reconciliation
David Boersema: What’s Wrong with Victims’ Rights?
Rob Gildert: Pedagogy and Punishment: A Unitarian Argument for Restorative Justice
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon: Perpetual Violence? Mimesis and Anamnesis
William C. Gay: Language and Reconciliation
Works Cited
About the Authors
Index
Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 26.2 (Fall 2006)
BOERSEMA, David and GRAY BROWN, Katy, Eds. Value Inquiry Book Series 182: Philosophy of Peace (Amsterdam, New York: 2006) VII, 266 pp. Pb: 978-90-420-2061-0; 90-420-2061-X; € 55 / US$ 69.
This book is a collection of philosophical papers that explores theoretical and practical aspects and implications of nonviolence as a means of establishing peace. The papers range from spiritual and political dimensions of nonviolence to issues of justice and values and proposals for action and change.
CONTENTS
Katy GRAY BROWN: Introduction: Beyond Safe Ground
Part One: Spiritual Dimensions
Jerald RICHARDS: Spirituality, Religion, Violence, and Nonviolence
Joseph KUNKEL: The Spiritual Side of Peacemaking
William C. GAY: Apocalyptic Thinking versus Nonviolent Action
Part Two: Political Dimensions
Anas KARZAI, Marianne VARDALOS: Understanding “Operation Enduring Freedom ” through the Persistence of Sacrifice, Revenge, and the Gift of Cruel Economies
Gail PRESBEY: Strategic Nonviolence in Africa: Reasons for its Embrace and Later Abandonment by Nkrumah, Nyerere, and Kaunda
Charles Martin OVERBY: The Treasure of Japan ’s Article 9: The World ’s Foremost Law for Peace, Justice, and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution
JOHN KULTGEN: “Faceless Coward ”: Bush’s Anti-Terrorism Rhetoric
Part Three: Justice and Values
Maria H. MORALES: No Justice, No Peace
Michael Patterson BROWN: Sharing a Sense of Justice: The Role of Conscience in Political Protest
David BOERSEMA: Taking Compromise Seriously
Andrew KELLEY: Kant on Freedom, Happiness, and Peace
Part Four: Action and Change
William C. GAY: A Normative Framework for Addressing Peace and Related Global Issues
Beth J.SINGER: On Language and Social Change
John KULTGEN: Making a Man of Her: Women in the Military
Ian M. HARRIS: Assumptions behind Different Types of Peace Education
Index
Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 26.2 (Fall 2006)
KULTGEN, John and Mary LENZI, Eds. Value Inquiry Book Series 181: Philosophy of Peace (Amsterdam, New York: 2006) XXIII, 278 pp. Pb: 978-90-420-2060-3 ; 90-420-2060-1. € 60 / US$ 75.
This book, based on the premise that democracy promotes peace and justice, explores theoretical and practical problems that can arise or that have arisen in democratic polities. Contributors address, with clarifying analyses, such theoretical issues as the relationship between recursivist metaphysics and democracy, the relationship between the economic and political orders, and the nature of justice. Contributors offer, as well, enlightening resolutions of practical problems resulting from a history of social, political or economic injustice.
CONTENTS
Judith PRESLER: Editorial Foreword
John KULTGEN: Preface
John KULTGEN and Mary LENZI: Acknowledgments
Donald A.WELLS, Ronald J. GLOSSOP, Beth J.SINGER, and Mary LENZI: Introduction: Is There a Connection between Democracy and Peace?
Part One: Divisions in Society and Obstacles to Democratic Discourse
Ron HIRSCHBEIN and Jason SUPPUS: Semiotics of Meaninglessness: Cornel West ’s Explication of Inner-City Nihilism
Howard HARRIOTT: Moral Pessimism and the Ideals of Democracy
Edward SANKOWSKI: South African Democracy, Multi-Culturalism, Rights, and Community
Gilburt GOFFSTEIN: Exploring Problems of Democracy with Perspectives of Jürgen Habermas and Zen Buddhism
Jerald RICHARDS: Hiroshima, Morality, and Democracy
Part Two: Public Participation in Political and Economic Processes
William C. GAY: Democracy in Market Economies
Thomas CHRISTIANO: Political Equality and the Independent Power of Private Property
Beth J. SINGER: Rights and Affirmative Action
Judith PRESLER: The Procedural Republic
Matthew SILLIMAN: Living Democracy Despite the Rule of Law: Civil Disobedience as Political Narrative
Part Three: Democracy and Routes to Peace
Donald A.WELLS: Unnecessary Suffering and Superfluous Injury
Brian LUKE: Exclusion of Soldiers from War-Making Decisions
Ali ERRISHI: Recursive Metaphysics Is Bad for Democracy
Andrew KELLEY: Toward a Reformulation of the Doctrine of Pacifism
Gregory P. FIELDS: Gandhi and Dewey: Education for Peace
Mary LENZI: Philosophers, Peace, and Problems for Democracy
Bibliography
Index
http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=Vibs+181
Gay, Willilam, “Philosophy of Peace: Report from the Editor of the Special Series in VIBS (Value Inquiry Book Series) published by Rodopi,” Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace Vol. 26 (Spring-Summer 2006)
Books under Contract:
Justice and Justification: The Relation between Justice and Peace, eds. Andrew Kelley and Deborah Peterson (presently being formatted under VIBS guidelines, but behind schedule)
Parceling the Globe: Philosophical Explorations in Globalization, Global Behavior, and Peace, eds. Danielle Poe and Eddy Souffrant (editors aim to send copy to me for review by Summer 2006; ahead of schedule)
Philosophical Perspectives on the ‘War on Terrorism.’ eds. Gail Presbey and Wendy Hamblet (editors aim to submit copy to me for review by Summer 2006; on schedule)
Problems for Democracy, eds. John H. Kultgen, Jr. and Mary Lenzi (manuscript has been completed; sample pages in pdf format were reviewed and approved by Rodopi Editor with only minor changes being required; once these changes are made and page numbers are added to the index, the camera-ready manuscript will be sent to Rodopi, probably by April, to put in their production line)
Savage Constructions: A Theory of Rebounding Violence in Indigenous Communities, Wendy Hamblet (monograph that is behind schedule)
Spiritual and Political Dimensions of Nonviolence and Peace, eds. David Boersema and Katy Gray Brown (editors aim to send copy to me for review in Spring 2006; on schedule)
Next Book Expected to Go Under Contract:
Rob Gildert and Dennis Rothermel are collecting manuscripts from our meeting California State University, Chico for an expected volume on Remembrance and Reconciliation (a contract may be issued as early as Summer 2006)
Professor William C. Gay was recipient of the 2005 Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte.
Series Editor: Kenneth H. Klein
Issues in War and Peace (1989)
Editors: Joseph C. Kunkel & Kenneth H. Klein
In the Interest of Peace (1990)
Editors: Kenneth H. Klein & Joseph C. Kunkel
Just War, Nonviolence, and Nuclear Deterrence (1991)
Editors: Duane Cady & Richard Werner
Longwood Academic
Hollowbrook Publishing
Wakefield, New Hampshire
Details on the Most Recent Volume
JUST WAR, NONVIOLENCE, AND NUCLEAR DETERRENCE
Philosophers on War and Peace
Duane Cady and Richard Werner (eds.)
In this new anthology, contemporary philosophers turn their attention to the issues of war and peace. Using their skills in political and social philosophy, ethical theory, and critical analysis, they debate the morality and logic of nuclear deterrence, the applicability and viability of just war theory, and the ethics and practicality of non-violence. Many perspectives and viewpoints are represented, including those of feminism, political realism, pacifism, and just war theory.
Several of the contributors are well-known for their previous books and articles on war and peace. The contributors include Sheldon Cohen, William Gay, Robert Holmes, Douglas Lackey, Steven Lee, Sara Ruddick, Ronald Santoni, and James Sterba. Most of the articles appear here in print for the first time.
Editor Duane Cady is chair of the philosophy department at Hamline University and is the author of the book From Warism to Pacifism. He presently serves as president of Concerned Philosophers for Peace. Co-editor Richard Werner is chair of the philosophy department at Hamilton College. He presently serves as eastern divisional representative for Concerned Philosophers for Peace.
ISBN: 0-89341-675-4 cloth $37.50 ISBN: 0-89341-676-2 paper $18.50 304 pages