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Keeping the peace : conflict resolution and peaceful societies around the world / edited by Graham Kemp and Douglas P. Fry.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: War and society (Routledge (Firm)) ; v. 8.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415947618
  • 9780415947619
  • 0415947626
  • 9780415947626
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.172 21
LOC classification:
  • JZ5538 .K438 2004
Contents:
Foreword / Elise Boulding -- 1. The Concept of Peaceful Societies / Graham Kemp -- 2. A Positive Concept of Peace / Ximena Davies-Vengoechea -- 3. Contentious But Not Violent: The Hopi of Northern Arizona / Alice Schlegel -- 4. Restraint and Ritual Apology: The Rotumans of the South Pacific / Alan Howard -- 5. Respect for All: The Paliyans of South India / Peter M. Gardner -- 6. Multiple Paths to Peace: The "La Paz" Zapotec of Mexico / Douglas P. Fry -- 7. Resolving Conflict Within the Law: The Mardu Aborigines of Australia / Robert Tonkinson -- 8. Putting a Stone in the Middle: The Nubians of Northern Africa / Robert Fernea -- 9. Keeping the Peace in an Island World: The Sama Dilaut of Southeast Asia / Clifford Sather -- 10. A Model of Peacefulness: Rethinking Peace and Conflict in Norway / Kristin Dobinson -- 11. Cautious, Alert, Polite, and Elusive: The Semai of Central Peninsular Malaysia / Robert Knox Dentan -- 12. Conclusion: Learning from Peaceful Societies / Douglas P. Fry.
Summary: "This collection of ethnographies discusses how non-violent values and conflict resolution strategies can help to create and maintain peace. Societies like the Hopi of Northern Arizona, the Nubians of Egypt, and the Zapotec of Mexico serve as models of peacemaking."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index.

Foreword / Elise Boulding -- 1. The Concept of Peaceful Societies / Graham Kemp -- 2. A Positive Concept of Peace / Ximena Davies-Vengoechea -- 3. Contentious But Not Violent: The Hopi of Northern Arizona / Alice Schlegel -- 4. Restraint and Ritual Apology: The Rotumans of the South Pacific / Alan Howard -- 5. Respect for All: The Paliyans of South India / Peter M. Gardner -- 6. Multiple Paths to Peace: The "La Paz" Zapotec of Mexico / Douglas P. Fry -- 7. Resolving Conflict Within the Law: The Mardu Aborigines of Australia / Robert Tonkinson -- 8. Putting a Stone in the Middle: The Nubians of Northern Africa / Robert Fernea -- 9. Keeping the Peace in an Island World: The Sama Dilaut of Southeast Asia / Clifford Sather -- 10. A Model of Peacefulness: Rethinking Peace and Conflict in Norway / Kristin Dobinson -- 11. Cautious, Alert, Polite, and Elusive: The Semai of Central Peninsular Malaysia / Robert Knox Dentan -- 12. Conclusion: Learning from Peaceful Societies / Douglas P. Fry.

"This collection of ethnographies discusses how non-violent values and conflict resolution strategies can help to create and maintain peace. Societies like the Hopi of Northern Arizona, the Nubians of Egypt, and the Zapotec of Mexico serve as models of peacemaking."--Publisher description.

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