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This collection of ethnographies discusses how non-violent values and conflict resolution strategies can help to create and maintain peace.
List of contents
Chapter 1 The Concept of Peaceful Societies, Graham Kemp; Chapter 2 A Positive Concept of Peace, Ximena Davies-Vengoechea; Chapter 3 Contentious But Not Violent: The Hopi of Northern Arizona, Alice Schlegel; Chapter 4 Restraint and Ritual Apology: The Rotumans of the South Pacific, Alan Howard; Chapter 5 Respect for All: The Paliyans of South India, Peter M. Gardner; Chapter 6 Multiple Paths to Peace: The “La Paz” Zapotec of Mexico, Douglas P. Fry; Chapter 7 Resolving Conflict Within the Law: The Mardu Aborigines of Australia, Robert Tonkinson; Chapter 8 Putting a Stone in the Middle: The Nubians of Northern Africa, Robert Fernea; Chapter 9 Keeping the Peace in an Island World: The Sama Dilaut of Southeast Asia, CLifford Sather; Chapter 10 A Model of Peacefulness: Rethinking Peace and Conflictin Norway, Kristin Dobinson; Chapter 11 Cautious, Alert, Polite, and Elusive: The Semai of Central Peninsular Malaysia, Robert Knox Dentan; Chapter 12 Conclusion: Learning from Peaceful Societies, Douglas P. Fry;
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Graham Kemp
Summary
This 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.
