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Searching for Peace

The Road to TRANSCEND

Johan Galtung author Carl G Jacobsen author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pluto Press

Published:20th May '02

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This is one of the first books to bridge the gap between peace and conflict studies, world order and globalisation.

Revealing deep structures and deep cultures of violence and finding in them the reasons for increasing violence and peacekeeping failures, it presents the lessons that can be learned from the TRANSCEND approach, adopted as a UN training guide. A critical and piercing analysis of the shortcomings of conventional approaches to conflict resolution, realpolitik and worsening dynamics of global violence which, if not resolved, threaten even more catastrophic destruction in the future.

The book maps the conditions and path to sustainable peace, and the challenge for peace by peaceful means.

'Impressive and moving, and very saddening as well ... A particular pleasure to read something not only sensible but even hopeful on methods of moving towards some decent outcome under what appears to be almost hopeless situations' -- Noam Chomsky

ISBN: 9780745319285

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 449g

360 pages

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