New
Book -
"Searching for Peace -
The Road to Transcend"
One of the authors, Johan
Galtung
TFF
associate
The book by Johan Galtung and Carl Gustav Jacobsen,
with contributions by Finn Tschudi and Kai Frithjof
Brandt-Jacobsen, SEARCHING FOR PEACE: THE ROAD TO
TRANSCEND (the most complete account so far of TRANSCEND
theory and practice) has now been published by PLUTO,
London.
Drawing on the TRANSCEND approach to peace-making,
Searching for Peace provides a comprehensive guide to
conflict resolution. The TRANSCEND method, now used by
the UN as a guide to future conflict resolution
approaches, applies to all conflict constellations.
It has been applied to more than 40 recent and current
violent conflict arenas, charting found and
yet-to-be-found paths to conflict resolution and
transcendence. Searching for Peace provides a
wide-ranging survey of past and present approaches to
violent conflict prevention.
The book's extensive analysis of the emergent conflict
dynamics which, if not resolved, threaten an even more
violent twenty-first century, is as important as its
comprehensive look at past conflicts. It is for these
that the new TRANSCEND approach/method is crucially
pertinent.
The book critiques the failures of recent peacekeeping
and peacemaking efforts while presenting the multi-decade
research and arguments that underlie the TRANSCEND
approach. Aiming to include all participants in the peace
dialogue, TRANSCEND charts a better-opportunity
alternative path to a less violent future.
* ...very interesting...a particular pleasure to read
something not only sensible but even hopeful on methods
for moving towards some decent outcome under what appear
to be almost hopeless situations ...[a] very good
read. Noam Chomsky,
Professor, M.I.T.
* ...I read [the book] with absorbing
interest. The sections on conflict resolution are
especially perceptive. So is the discussion of the war
culture...Thank you for a fine contribution to peace
science.
Anatol Rapoport, Professor
Emeritus, University of Toronto
* What a fascinating ms! This highly condensed and
powerful overview of the past and present realpolitik of
peacemaking during continuous historical struggles
between national identity and state integrity, opens up
major new ways to think about the seemingly intractable
problems of state-nation interface. The Transcend
method...takes its place as a highly significant strategy
in the rich array of peacebuilding techniques...This book
is a must-read for scholars, practitioners, policy-makers
and peace activists!
Elise Boulding, Professor
Emeritus of Sociology, Dartmouth College; past
Secretary-General, International Peace Research
Association
Table of
Contents
Preface
Part 1: Conflict Resolution:
Perspectives and Assumptions
1.1 Peace-making as Realpolitik
1.2 Our War Cultures Defining Parameters: Their
Essence; Their Ramifications (external; domestic; racism;
borders; international law)
Part 2: Conflict Formations
for the 21st Century
2.1 Exiting the 20th Century, Entering the 21st: Some
Basic Conflict Formations
2.2 Russia-China: The New "Strategic Partnership"
2.3 New-Century Eurasian Conflict Dynamics
2.4 East Asia/South China Sea: 21st Century Conflict
Dynamics
Part 3: A Practice of Peace:
The TRANSCEND Approach
3.1 TRANSCEND: 40 Years, 40 Conflicts
3.2 40 Conflicts; 40 Perspectives
3.3 The State/Nation Dialectic: Some Tentative
Conclusions
3.4 Crafting Peace: On the Theory of the TRANSCEND
Approach
Part 4: In Lieu of a Conclusion:
Other Thoughts Towards a Road-Map
4.1 Beyond Mediation
4.2 Beyond Security
Johan Galtung is Director
of TRANSCEND and Professor of Peace Studies.
Carl G. Jacobsen is
Professor of International and Conflict/Peace Studies and
Director of Eurasian Security Studies at Carleton
University.
Kai Frithjof
Brand-Jacobsen is Director of ICL and Chair of
TRANSCEND's Peace Actor Empowerment program.
Finn Tschudi is Professor
of Psychology at the University of Oslo.
Available directly at the full price from
Pluto Press, April
2000 (available 1st week of April; May 2000 in North
America)
Hardback 0 7453 1614 X: 45 pounds sterling;
Paperback 0 7453 1613 1: 14,99 pounds sterling.
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