Recognition of Reality: Reflections and Prose Poems (Conflict & Peacebuilding S.) - Softcover

Curle, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1869890124 ISBN 13: 9781869890124

Publisher: Hawthorn Press, 1998

Synopsis

Gives reflections - glimpses of inner and outer worlds described in poetic form and based always on real experience. The overriding message from the collection is that people must look to their essential inner selves if they wish to succeed in transforming and renewing the earth.

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About the Author

Charles Thomas William Curle (1916-2006), better known as Adam Curle, was a British academic known for his work in social psychology, pedagogy, development studies, and peace studies. After holding posts at the University of Oxford, University of Exeter, University of Ghana and Harvard University. Following the establishment of the Peace Studies in 1973 at the University of Bradford, he became the inaugural Professor of Peace Studies there. Curle's works include several books on education, including Educational Strategy for Developing Societies (1963) and books on peace and peacemaking, including Making Peace (1971). Throughout his career, as well as after his retirement in 1978, he became active in peacemaking and mediation, visiting Nigeria and Biafra several times as part of a Quaker contingent during the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-70.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hawthorn Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1869890124
• ISBN 13: 9781869890124
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120