Building a Peaceful Society: Creative Integration of Peace Education - Softcover

Finley, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617354562 ISBN 13: 9781617354564

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

To truly move toward a more peaceful society, it is imperative that peace education better address structural and institutional violence. This requires that it be integrated into institutions outside of schools and universities. Doing so will be challenging, as many of these institutions are structured on domination and control, not on partnership and shared power. In particular, U.S. criminal justice, social services and prevention programs, and sport have tended to be dominator-modeled. This book offers analysis and suggestions for overcoming these challenges and for integrating peace education into important social institutions. Creativity will be one of the most useful assets in moving peace education from schools to other institutions. This book argues that with creative visioning, collaboration, and implementation, peace education can be integrated into the most challenging situations and provide hope for holistic changes in our society.

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About the Author

LAURA L. FINLEY is currently a Visiting Professor of Sociology at Florida Atlantic University. She is also Manager of the Training Department at Women In Distress, an agency devoted to ending domestic abuse. She is co-author of Piss Off! How drug Testing and Other Privacy Violations are Alienating America's Youth. Another co-authored book, The sport Industry's War on Athletes, will be published in fall 2006.

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1617354562
• ISBN 13: 9781617354564
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216