The Other America: The Forgivers and the Peacemakers

In: Peace & change: PC ; a journal of peace research, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 446-454

Abstract

For Panel on "Is America a Forgiving Place?" at Inangural Conference, Toward a Deeper Understanding of Forgiveness, Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture, College of the Holy Cross, Septemper 15, 2001. The history of the traditions of nonviolence in America beginning with William Penn's Holy Experiment is discussed briefly and is related to the United Nations'declaration of a Decade of Education for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence. Current movements including the restorative justice movement and community‐based mediation; dialogue; and nonviolence training and peace action, as well as the growing field of peace research and peace studies, are reviewed in light of their potential for further development of peace culture in the United States.