People's peace: prospects for a human future

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Introduction -- Part One. Religion in Action -- 1. Inspiring Peace: Religious Peacebuilding from Local to Global -- 2. The Power of Peace: The Moral and Political Advantages of Nonviolence -- 3. The Spiritual Balance of Peace in the Red Stick War, 1813-1814 -- 4. Exegeting Peace from Nagpur -- 5. Peace, Reconciliation, and Forgiveness: Early Rabbinic Stories and Their Implications for People's Peace -- 6. Coming Together in Peace: Community and Informality in Cairo -- 7. The Iberian Empires: Religious Tolerance in Intolerant Places and from Unexpected People -- Part Two. People in Action -- 8. "US out of El Salvador!" The Maryknoll Sisters and the Transnational Struggle for Human Rights -- 9. Human Rights City Initiatives as a People's Peace Process -- 10. Is Ferguson the Same as Gaza? Diaspora Grassroots Activism and Intersectional Alliances -- 11. Peacemaking at the Intersection of the Local and Global in Bali -- 12. People's Peace at Stake: An Assamese Experience -- Conclusion: Looking Ahead, People and Peace in the Future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

""People's Peace: Prospects for a Human Future" is a collection of essays highlighting the everyday and ordinary acts of peace committed by people living in community. The essays span a range of humanities disciplines: history, philosophy, theology, anthropology, cultural studies, and peace studies. Putting these approaches and methods in dialogue with each other produces a theoretical intervention that aims to shift the study of peace away from high organizations and institutions and locate it within people's lives and lived culture. Each essay in this book provides an important instance of people's peace where individuals defy authority or overcome cultural stigmas to assert the value of peaceful relations with others and their own personal dignity. People look for peace, they make peace, and, in doing so, make us aware that common people on their own have always worked and continue to work toward resolution rather than division"--