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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
Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 26.2 (Fall 2006)
Call for Presentations
Concerned Philosophers for Peace Symposium at Pacific APA
San Francisco April 3-8
Ethics of Self-Defense
The realization that virtually every adversary claims to act in self-defense raises numerous possibilities for philosophical analysis. These possibilities include the following problematics:
What is the meaning of self-defense in an era of unprecedented lethal weapony, ambigous threats, and non-state actors?
What is permissible: What if any limits should be imposed on self-defense?
How can self-defense be justified? Is the right of self-defense simply intuitively obvious? Should it be scaffolded upon Just War Theory? Is it dervied from natural law? Or should self-defense be seen as the inevitable outcome of realpolitk?
Please e-mail proposed presentations to Ron Hirschbein [Rhirschbein@csuchico.edu] by Nov. 1.
Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 26.2 (Fall 2006)
Moral Vision: How Everyday Life Shapes Ethical Thinking by Duane L. Cady Rowman & Littlefield $21.95 paper ISBN 0-7425-4494-X May, 2005 134pp
“A deeply felt, wonderfully clear and heartening book. MORAL VISION reflects decades of writing and teaching about theories of war by a philosopher actively engaged in nonviolent projects, waging peace. Duane Cady’s revisionary moral concepts enable us to think against violence, to see nonviolence as reason’s dream.” * Sara Ruddick, author of MATERNAL THINKING: Toward a Politics of Peace
What is moral reasoning? Are we being reasonable when we make moral decisions if we cannot supply compelling arguments, criteria, necessary and sufficient conditions, decisive empirical evidence and the like?
In MORAL VISION, Duane L. Cady critiques the contemporary inclination to model reason after textbook natural science, noting that our values are not conclusions of proofs or derivations but frameworks in which such reasoning may take place, frameworks that we struggle to understand and explain. Cady goes on to suggest a rich conception of reason beyond that of stereotypical science, one that reflects aesthetic, historical, experiential, and pluralistic aspects of moral thinking, one that widens and deepens descriptions of how moral thinking typically happens.
Posted in Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace Vol. 26 (Spring – Summer 2006)
Can a computer game teach how to fight real-world adversaries—dictators, military occupiers and corrupt rulers, using methods that have succeeded in actual conflicts—not with laser rays or AK47s, but with non-military strategies and nonviolent weapons?
Such a game, “A Force More Powerful (AFMP)”, is now available. A unique collaboration of experts on nonviolent conflict working with veteran game designers has developed a simulation game that teaches the strategy of nonviolent conflict. A dozen scenarios, inspired by recent history, include conflicts against dictators, occupiers, colonizers and corrupt regimes, as well as struggles to secure the political and human rights of ethnic and racial minorities and women.
“A Force More Powerful” is the first and only game to teach the waging of conflict using nonviolent methods. Destined for use by activists and leaders of nonviolent resistance and opposition movements, the game will also educate the media and general public on the potential of nonviolent action and serve as a simulation tool for academic studies of nonviolent resistance.
For more Info please visit the website at:
http://www.afmpgame.com/
Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace Vol. 26 (Spring – Summer 2006)
The Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi-King Society, is a biannual publication devoted to the examination of the theory and practice of nonviolence, especially as it relates to the philosophies of Gandhi and King. The Acorn was founded by Ha Poong Kim. Currently issues of The Acorn are published with the support of St. Bonaventure University.
Papers submitted for publication in The Acorn should be submitted both in hard copy and on disk or via e-mail, preferably in Microsoft Word format. Submissions may be up to 8,000 words in length (approximately 32 typed pages, double spaced). Shorter papers or essays are welcome. Papers should follow M.L.A. style. Papers about which there is some question regarding either quality or appropriateness are presented for blind review to members of our editorial board. Approximately half of all submissions are published.
The Acorn accepts no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts. Unless accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope, no manuscript will be returned. The Acorn welcomes letters to the editor. The Acorn reserves the right to edit or shorten all submissions.
Subscriptions to The Acorn (two issues per year) are $12.00 (U.S. funds) for all subscribers. Checks should be made payable to The Acorn or to The Gandhi-King Society.
Papers and queries may be directed to:
The Acorn
Box 13
St. Bonaventure University
St. Bonaventure, NY 14778 U.S.A
e-mail: bgan (at) sbu.edu
phone: 716-375-2275
website: http://acorn.sbu.edu
Posted in the Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace Vol. 26 (Spring – Summer 2006)
The Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict, the journal of the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (ISSN 1095-1962) publishes a variety of scholarly articles, essays, and poetry on topics such as war, peace, global cooperation, domestic violence, and interpersonal conflict resolution; including questions of military and political security, the global economy, and global environmental issues. We wish to promote discussion of both strategic and ethical questions surrounding issues of war, peace, the environment, and justice.
The Wisconsin Institute is committed to a balanced review of diverse perspectives. Submissions are welcome from all disciplines. Our intended audience includes scholars from a wide range of interests within the university community and educated members of the larger public. The format allows the publication of original previously-unpublished works of sufficient length to give authors the opportunity to discuss a particular topic in depth. Other forms of creative writing are invited. Contributors should avoid submissions accessible only to specialists in their field.
The Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict may also include book reviews. Persons interested in reviewing should contact the editor.
Submissions should be a maximum of 25 pages, double-spaced. All manuscripts should be composed in MS Word using Bookman Old Style, 10-point font. Citations are to be in the body of the text, e.g., (Jones, p.35), with a full bibliography at the end of the article. Do not use footnotes. Content notes should be placed at the end of the manuscript. Include separately a brief bio statement with a note that includes your institution, your email and mailing addresses, and work phone number.
Submissions for 2006-2007 issue are due June 16, 2006. Five copies of each submission should be sent to the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, UWSP, LRC, 900 Reserve Street, Stevens Point, WI 54481. In addition, supply the manuscript electronically to wiinst@uwsp.edu.
Please visit the institute website for more information: www.wisconsin-institute.org.
Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 1.2 (Fall 1991)
Ronald E. Santoni (Denison University) was a delegate at a special UN Conference for Peace Messenger organizations. Co-sponsored by the Soviet Peace Fund, the conference was held in Dagomys, Sochi, USSR on June 10-14 and focused on possibilities for peace in the 21st century. Santoni was a delegate for IPPNO and was selected to be “rapporteur” and spokesperson for a special working group of the conference concentrating on International Peace and Global Security. He also addressed the plenary session on “Nuclear Weapons: Moral Grounds for Their Abolition.”
Call For Papers
Call for papers for a Special Issue of Hypatia on “Feminism and Peace.” This volume will explore a range of issues concerning the interconnections between feminist philosophy and peace studies. Papers are welcome on a variety of topics, including (but not limited to) the following: the nature of a feminist peace politics or a feminist peace ethic; the relevance and implications of various feminist philosophies (e.g., liberal feminism, Marxist feminism, radical feminism, socialist feminism, ecological feminism, postmodernist feminism) for an understanding of the just war and pacifist traditions; feminist perspectives on the morality of war and the morality of violence; feminist discussions of philosophical connections between the practices and ideologies of militarism, nuclearism, imperialism and violence toward those perceived as “other;” feminist analyses of the relevance of race, gender, and class to discussions of war, peace, and various forms of institutional and interpersonal violence; critical examinations of male gender-biased language in the contexts of discussions of war, peace, and violence toward women; gendered conceptions of the body and sexuality as they relate to issues of war, peace, and “domestic violence;” feminist analyses of prostitution, rape, pornography, sexual harassment and other forms of sexual abuse in the context of a feminist peace politics; ecofeminist perspectives on connections between women, peace, and the nonhuman natural environment; feminist explorations of the philosophical significance of women’s peace camps and non-violent actions; and feminist analyses of Gandhian satyagrahas as strategies of resistance.
The guest editors for this Special Issue are Karen J. Warren and Duane L. Cady. Submissions should be sent in quadruplicate to: Karen J. Warren, Philosophy Department, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101. Deadline for Submissions: March 15, 1993. Publication Date: April, 1994.
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