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A just peaceful world. How can that be achieved? What sorts of relationships might be needed? Could the concept of friendship assist? Assembling the work of twenty scholars, this book creates a resource for those aiming to deal with conflict non-violently and promotes peaceful attitudes and outcomes in a troubled world.
The book posits that making the connections between Friendship, Peace and Social Justice is vital for living in a functioning and sustainable world. Firstly, it makes connections between scholars of peace and conflict studies, friendship studies, ethics, and social justice. Secondly, it explores the connections between the ethical concepts and practices of friendship, peace, and social justice. Thirdly, it links academic researchers who use a variety of methodological approaches. Fourthly, it provides different academic perspectives of scholars from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The topics covered include civic, social and virtue friendship, peace and psycho-social development, the role of social media and friendship, cultures of peace activism, resistance, justice movements, environmental campaigns, community building, art collectives, dialogue, facilitative listening, Ubuntu, reconciliation, healing and relationship building.
This book will be of great interest to researchers and scholars in Politics, Sociology, Social Justice and Peace and Conflict Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Peace Review.
Contents
Introduction: Exploring Friendship, Peace and Social Justice PART 1: Social Justice and Political/Social/Civic/Adaptive Friendship 1. Social Justice, Social Friendship, and the Role of Trust as an Other-Oriented Emotion 2. Civic Friendship as a Remedy for the Cult of Mediocrity 3. Friends with Benefits (and Sometimes Costs) 4. Chinese-Tanzanian Friendship and Friendship Treaties PART 2: Friendship as a Peace Practice 5. Building Peace through Facebook Friendship Groups 6. Inquiry as Practice: Building Relationships through Listening in Participatory Action Peace Research 7. The Art of Friendship: Solidifying Resettled Communities in Philadelphia PART 3: Friendship, Ethics and Justice 8. Solidarity without Borders: Friendship, the Arts, and Social Movements 9. Cultivating Virtuous Friendship as a Model for Teaching Peace Positively 10. Toward an Ethic of Friendship in Academic Research: A Reflection on Rwanda and Survivors of the Genocide against the Tutsi PART 4: The Psychology of Friendship for Peace 11. First Friendships: Foundations for Peace 12. Neurobiology of Social Capacities: The Building Blocks of Friendship PART 5: Economic Justice and Friendship 13. The Cost of Political Differences to the Peace of Friendship 14. The Market as a Space for Building a Peaceful Society Conclusion: Connecting Friendship, Peace and Social Justice
