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Book SynopsisThis work highlights the existence of non-violent and anti-violent societies, combining theory and case studies of particular groups, to look at how they deal with conflict with a view to distilling lessons about peacemaking in a global context.
Trade Review"Out of the thousands of books published about violence, war, and what to do about them, this one will stand out as an exemplar of what we should be doing at the start of a new millennium. Graham Kemp and Douglas Fry have done us all a great service by compiling vital information about how people organize peaceful, collective lives." -- Lester Kurtz, editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia ofViolence, Peace and Conflict
"A wonderful book! Filled with detailed accounts of societies that manage conflict so that they rarely become violent, Keeping the Peace provides grounds for hoping that we too can invent ways to reduce the violence in our culture." -- Joseph de Rivera, co-editor of Believed inImaginings: The Narrative Construction of Reality
"Well-suited for classroom use, this collection explores peace in a diverse range of human societies. It reveals the values and methods used to forge lives, not without conflict, but where conflict is addressed through non-violent means. The lesson of this book is to stop dreaming of peace, and join together in building a more peaceful world-it can be done." -- R. Brian Ferguson, editor of The State, Identity, and Violence: PoliticalDisintegration in the Post-Cold War World
Table of ContentsForeword Elise Boulding Preface Introductory Note 1. The Concept of Peaceful Societies Graham Kemp 2. A Positive Concept of Peace Ximena Davies-Vengoechea 3. Contentious But Not Violent: The Hopi of Northern Arizona Alice Schlegel 4. Restraint and Ritual Apology: The Rotumans of the South Pacific Alan Howard 5. Respect For All: The Paliyans of South India Peter M. Gardner 6. Multiple Paths to Peace: The "La Paz" Zapotec of Mexico Douglas P. Fry 7. Resolving Conflict Within the Law: The Mardu Aborigines of Australia Robert Tonkinson 8. Putting a Stone In The Middle: The Nubians of Northern Africa Robert Fernea 9. Keeping the Peace in an Island World: The Sama Dilaut of Southeast Asia Clifford Sather 10. A Model of Peacefulness: Rethinking Peace and Conflict in Norway Kristin Dobinson 11. Cautious, Alert, Polite, and Elusive: The Semai of Central Peninsular Malaysia Robert Knox Dentan 12. Conclusions: Learning from Peaceful Societies Douglas P. Fry Author Biographies Glossary Index
