Deconstructing Peace

Author : Patrick Pinkerton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786614081
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Peace written by Patrick Pinkerton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a novel approach to peace and conflict studies, through an original application of the philosophy of Jacques Derrida to the post-conflict politics of Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Based on new readings of the peace agreements and the post-conflict political systems, the book goes beyond accounts that present a static picture of ‘fixed divisions’ in these cases. By exploring how formal electoral politics and the informal political spheres of artistic, cultural, judicial and protest movements already contest the politics of division, the book argues that the post-conflict political systems in Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina are in a process of deconstruction. The text adds to the Derridean lexicon by developing the idea of a ‘deconstructive conclusion’, which challenges historical understandings of conflicts at the same time as challenging their consequences in the present. The study provides a critical contribution to peacebuilding and International Relations literature, by demonstrating how Derridean concepts can be utilised to provide fresh understandings of conflict and post-conflict situations, as well as allowing for political interventions to be made into these processes.

Author : MR Michael Haas, Dip
Publisher : Publishinghouse for Scholars
ISBN 13 : 9780983962625
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing the Democratic Peace written by MR Michael Haas, Dip and published by Publishinghouse for Scholars. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of international studies thought that finally an extraordinary research finding would bring scholars together in a common pursuit for researcher that would lighten a pathway toward a peaceful world: If only a world of democracies could be established, international relations would be based on diplomacy, not war. But they abandoned basic rules of scientific and systematic research by failing to define what they meant by "democracy," and next sought a critical variable explaining why democracies were presumably so peaceful toward one another, unaware of paradigmatic possibilities. They ignored deviant cases and normative implications. Then came the Iraq War of 2003, when "democratic peace" research was used as a justification for unlawful aggression. Their research boomeranged. The book traces the development of the theory--from the first empirical findings, the botched and contradictory research designs, failure to consider causal implications, pseudotheoretical explanations, and implicit implications for policy. The book concludes that excellent research conducted within the framework of the delusionary social constructionist concept of "democratic peace" has fallen like Humpty Dumpty and can only be salvaged by developing paradigmatic theory about peace and war and then retrofitting the research therein.

Author : C. Borg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137382120
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lorenzo Milani's Culture of Peace written by C. Borg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers, activists, and educators draw inspiration from the radical thought of Lorenzo Milani to invite readers to explore the intricacies, logistics, ethics and pedagogy of conflict and peace as played out in a number of domains, including religion, education, gender, sexuality, democracy, art, sociology and philosophy.

Author : Dina Francesca Haynes
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754674931
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing the Reconstruction written by Dina Francesca Haynes and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a range of contributors from multiple countries, this interdisciplinary volume offers a unique field view of the rule of law and human rights reform in the reconciliation and reconstruction process. The contributors all worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the ten years after the Dayton Peace Accords were signed; here they pause to analyze and critique the work they did.

Author : Verena Schulz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004407553
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Imperial Representation: Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius on Nero and Domitian written by Verena Schulz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the literary strategies that Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in depicting the eccentric emperors Nero and Domitian and their imperial representation.

Author : Jean-Daniel Nordmann
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3825814424
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federalism written by Jean-Daniel Nordmann and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers contained in this book reflect the ideas presented at the colloquium held on the same subject. The event, sponsored by the Nordmann Foundation, was organized to the memory of the late Jean Nordmann by Prof. Claude Klein, Jerusalem, and Prof. Thomas Fleiner, Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg. Jean Nordmann and his family have always supported the good relations between the University of Fribourg and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The Nordmann Foundation was later created to develop further the cooperation between the two universities, thus contributing substantially to the understanding of the Jewish and Christian communities, notably in Switzerland.

Author : Alex Deagon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509912894
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Violence to Peace written by Alex Deagon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the literature on jurisprudence and theology by arguing for the role of a theoretically robust Christian theology in a legal community dominated by secular and liberal ideology. It is not a doctrinal or empirical analysis, but a theoretical exposition of the way in which modern law has contingently drifted from its theological origins. As a result, the legal system and the ideal of individual and communal relationship it envisages is characterised by antagonism and alienation, or more broadly, violence. The book contends that the way to restore a legal community of peace is to return to a Christian theology which is informed by Trinitarian thinking or the notion of unity in diversity, and reunites faith with reason. Returning reason to its ground in being allows peaceful persuasion by the revelation of God's perfect being through the Trinity and Incarnation, which models and enables the peaceful coexistence of difference through self-sacrificing love. This in turn produces the law of love – to love your neighbour as yourself. Since love does no wrong to a neighbour, a legal community operating by the law of love can fulfil the obligations of law by going beyond merely what is required by law and love individuals as part of a community.

Author : Joseph Martos
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498221793
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Sacramental Theology and Reconstructing Catholic Ritual written by Joseph Martos and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholic sacramental doctrine has lost much of its credibility. Baptized people leave the church, adolescents stop attending shortly after they are confirmed, supposedly indissoluble marriages regularly dissolve, few go to confession, and many do not believe in transubstantiation. Drawing upon his decades-long study of the sacraments, Martos reveals how teachings that seemed rooted in the scriptures and Catholic life have become unmoored from the contexts in which they arose, and why seemingly eternal truths are actually historically relative. After carefully constructing Catholic teaching from the church's own documents, he deconstructs it by demonstrating how biblical passages were misconstrued by patristic authors and how patristic writings were misunderstood by medieval scholastics. The long process of misinterpretation culminated in the dogmatic pronouncements of the Council of Trent, which continues to dominate Catholic thinking about the church's religious ceremonies. If the sacraments are released from their dogmatic baggage, Martos believes that the spiritual realities they symbolize can be celebrated in any human culture without being tied to their traditional rites.

Author : Robert Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317793870
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City written by Robert Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyzes how literary movements such as the Beat Generation, the New York poets and Black Arts Moment criticized the spatial restructuring of post-WWII New York City.

Author : M. Peters
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403980640
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Derrida written by M. Peters and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to Jacques Derrida's vision for what a 'new' humanities should strive toward, Peter Trifonas and Michael Peters gather together in a single volume original essays by major scholars in the humanities today. Using Derrida's seven programmatic theses as a springboard, the contributors aim to reimagine, as Derrida did, the tasks for the new humanities in such areas as history of literature, history of democracy, history of profession, idea of sovereignty, and history of man. Deconstructing Derrida engages Jacques Derrida's polemic on the future of the humanities to come and expands on the notion of what us proper to the humanities in the current age of globalism and change.