Del 164 - Philosophy of Peace

Putting Peace into Practice

Evaluating Policy on Local and Global Levels

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

Av Nancy Nyquist Potter

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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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Utgivningsdatum2004-01-01
Mått150 x 220 x 20 mm
Vikt390 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePhilosophy of Peace
Antal sidor197
FörlagBrill
MedarbetareNyquistPotter,Nancy
ISBN9789042018631

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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.

Joseph C. KUNKEL : Editorial ForewordNancy NYQUIST POTTER: PrefacePART ONE Communication and the Construction of WorldviewsIntroductionOne William C. GAY: Public Policy Discourse on PeaceTwo Ron HIRSCHBEIN: Massing the Tropes: Metaphors of Nuclear StrategyThree Melissa BURCHARD: The Power of Entertainment: Violence in the Stories of Our TimesPART TWO The State and Its Apparatus: Worldviews in PracticeIntroductionFour Nancy NYQUIST POTTER: Can Sex Offenders Learn Victim Empathy in Prison?Five Judith PRESLER: Justice, Difference, and CommunityPART THREE Normative Dimensions of Interventionist Policies in the Global DomainIntroductionSix Avery KOLERS: Self-Determination in a Cosmopolitan WorldSeven Robert H. KIMBALL: Is “Humanitarian Intervention” an Oxymoron?Eight Joseph C. KUNKEL: Applying Morality to the Economic Sanctions on IraqPART FOUR Alternative Responses to Conflict in the Global DomainIntroductionNine Beth J. SINGER: Nationalism and DehostilizationTen Jerald RICHARDS: Keys to Political Forgiveness in International RelationsBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex