Just Peacemaking: Ten Practices for Abolishing War

By Glen H. Stassen

Book Overview

The inadequacies of pacifism and just war have taken a horrible toll on the world of this century. While debate has focused on whether or not to wage war, we have witnessed two world wars, the specter of nuclear annihilation, and the wholesale extermination of peoples, as well as numerous other conflicts with tragic results. What have been overlooked are the positive, practical steps that human beings can take to make peace.Enter a new perspective. Just Peacemaking maps a course for individuals, grassroots groups, voluntary associations, and religious organizations -- to show people how to fan the flames of peace. It challenges pacifists to be peacemakers and just war theorists to spell out the resorts that should be tried before the last. It explores what intentions we have to restore a just and enduring peace -- and what we must do to live up to those intentions.Just Peacemaking is the product of 23 scholars who have collaborated annually since 1992 to specify the practical steps and develop the undergirding principles of this critical approach.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0829812660
• ISBN13: 9780829812664
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Pilgrim Press, The
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Peacemaking with purpose and effectiveness

I originally encountered this book while writing a paper for a Seminary class. It served as my first contact with Glen Stassen's work, and it changed my views on peacemaking forever. This book will lead you to positive actions for peacemaking, a wonderful alternative to the more passive approaches to peace that are often proposed in our world. Every library should have a copy, along with other offerings by Glen Stassen. Excellent, Excellent, Excellent!

A Beautiful Insight and History

Glen Stassen's Just Peacemaking does a great job of introducing you to the peacemaking movement and idealogy. Through first hand experience and research Glen gives us the history of this important social movement. While it can at times be a little academic it is definitely worth picking up and reading.

A must read

This book is a must read for those troubled by the current situation in the middle east. The root causes of terrorism are examined. Preventative measures are discussed. This is a book of action in utlizing democratic and political practices to promote conflict resolution.

The art of conflict resolution

A collection of some of the finest minds in the nation. Glen Stassen assembles the thoughts of giant scholars from New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, Kansas and California and provides a crisp guide for abolishing war. This is a noble book. It provides practical steps to stop war theory and implement a just and enduring peace. I found chapter six, "Foster Just and Sustainable Economic Development," a superb piece of workmanship. In a perfect world, this book would be required reading for every member of Congress.

Required Reading for every President

This should be on the coffee table, magazine rack, bookshelf, and waiting room of every serious national leader. Conscientious voters should also read this in order to understand what it takes to make political peace in the world. But Stassen is not merely political, he's actually biblical first of all. He exegetes like a biblical scholar while making applications which only a leading Christian ethicist like he could. Just peacemaking shows that "just war theory" can lead to peace while restraining war, and that passifism is an extremely ACTIVE practice. EXCELLENT!