Putting Peace into Practice
Evaluating Policy on Local and Global Levels
Published on 1. January 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-90-420-1863-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the role and limits of policies in shaping attitudes and actions toward war, violence, and peace. Authors examine militaristic language and metaphor, effects of media violence on children, humanitarian intervention, sanctions, peacemaking, sex offender treatment programs, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, community, and political forgiveness to identify problem policies and develop better ones.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-1863-1 (9789042018631)
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Person
NANCY NYQUIST POTTER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. She is an executive board member of International Philosophers for Peace and co-organized the World Peace Meet in Calcutta, India, in 1999. She teaches courses on the nature of violence, philosophies of peace, ethics, feminist theory, and philosophy of mental illness. She is also a board member of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry and is interested in intersections between mental health, culture, and violence. She is the author of How Can I Be Trusted? A Virtue Theory of Trustworthiness, a book that examines relationships between trust and power.
Content
Joseph C. KUNKEL : Editorial Foreword
Nancy NYQUIST POTTER: Preface
PART ONE Communication and the Construction of Worldviews
Introduction
One William C. GAY: Public Policy Discourse on Peace
Two Ron HIRSCHBEIN: Massing the Tropes: Metaphors of Nuclear Strategy
Three Melissa BURCHARD: The Power of Entertainment: Violence in the Stories of Our Times
PART TWO The State and Its Apparatus: Worldviews in Practice
Introduction
Four Nancy NYQUIST POTTER: Can Sex Offenders Learn Victim Empathy in Prison?
Five Judith PRESLER: Justice, Difference, and Community
PART THREE Normative Dimensions of Interventionist Policies in the Global Domain
Introduction
Six Avery KOLERS: Self-Determination in a Cosmopolitan World
Seven Robert H. KIMBALL: Is "Humanitarian Intervention" an Oxymoron?
Eight Joseph C. KUNKEL: Applying Morality to the Economic Sanctions on Iraq
PART FOUR Alternative Responses to Conflict in the Global Domain
Introduction
Nine Beth J. SINGER: Nationalism and Dehostilization
Ten Jerald RICHARDS: Keys to Political Forgiveness in International Relations
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
Nancy NYQUIST POTTER: Preface
PART ONE Communication and the Construction of Worldviews
Introduction
One William C. GAY: Public Policy Discourse on Peace
Two Ron HIRSCHBEIN: Massing the Tropes: Metaphors of Nuclear Strategy
Three Melissa BURCHARD: The Power of Entertainment: Violence in the Stories of Our Times
PART TWO The State and Its Apparatus: Worldviews in Practice
Introduction
Four Nancy NYQUIST POTTER: Can Sex Offenders Learn Victim Empathy in Prison?
Five Judith PRESLER: Justice, Difference, and Community
PART THREE Normative Dimensions of Interventionist Policies in the Global Domain
Introduction
Six Avery KOLERS: Self-Determination in a Cosmopolitan World
Seven Robert H. KIMBALL: Is "Humanitarian Intervention" an Oxymoron?
Eight Joseph C. KUNKEL: Applying Morality to the Economic Sanctions on Iraq
PART FOUR Alternative Responses to Conflict in the Global Domain
Introduction
Nine Beth J. SINGER: Nationalism and Dehostilization
Ten Jerald RICHARDS: Keys to Political Forgiveness in International Relations
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index