Peace As Process
Reconciliation and Conflict Resolution in South Asia
Helmut Reifeld(Author)
Ranabir Samaddar(Co-Author)
Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Will be published approx. on 20. October 2025
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-81-7304-397-0 (ISBN)
Description
Peace as a political value is the fundamental strain of this book. As the book argues through its essays, peace studies originate not only from desire, concern and care, but also from a critical perspective that interrogates all received ideas and actions about conflict and war. Such a critical perspective stems from three principles. First, it is informed by an awareness of human rights and justice. Second, it concerns itself with effecting changes in perceptions. And third, it intends to enlarge our awareness of a social reality where strength is employed to maintain or enhance power at the expense of the weak.
It is only contesting all values of authority by valorizing dialogue, that peace acquires its own value. Basing itself on essays of differential nature, method, perspective and strain, the volume attempts to convey the idea that peace studies cannot be monolithic, and that critical peace studies will have to eschew the absolute polarities of realism and ethics.
It is only contesting all values of authority by valorizing dialogue, that peace acquires its own value. Basing itself on essays of differential nature, method, perspective and strain, the volume attempts to convey the idea that peace studies cannot be monolithic, and that critical peace studies will have to eschew the absolute polarities of realism and ethics.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
700 gr
ISBN-13
978-81-7304-397-0 (9788173043970)
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Persons
Ranabir Samaddar is presently the director of the peace studies programme at the South Asia Forum for Human Rights. His two recent publications are: Memory, Power, Identity (1998) and The Marginal Nation (1999). He is the editor of the well-known volume, Reflections on Partition in the East (1997).
Helmut Reifeld is representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in India. He recently edited (together with Imtiaz Ahmad and Partha S. Ghosh) Pluralism and Equality: Values in Indian Society and Politics (2000) and (together with Ambrose Pinto) Women in Panchayati Raj (2001).
Helmut Reifeld is representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in India. He recently edited (together with Imtiaz Ahmad and Partha S. Ghosh) Pluralism and Equality: Values in Indian Society and Politics (2000) and (together with Ambrose Pinto) Women in Panchayati Raj (2001).
Content
Preface 7
Introduction 11
I Concepts 21
II Regions 101
III Cases 189
Contributors 319
Index 321
Introduction 11
I Concepts 21
II Regions 101
III Cases 189
Contributors 319
Index 321