Review of Education in developments: Volume 3
Review of Magnus Haavelsrud’s “Education in developments: Volume 3” by Patricia M. Mische.
Book reviews
Book Review – Educating for peace and human rights: An introduction
In “Educating for peace and human rights: An introduction,” Maria Hantzopoulos and Monisha Bajaj have written an excellent introductory text that extends our understandings and serves as a platform for continuing to move scholars and practitioners forward in their study and implementation of peace and human rights education.
Book Review: “Education in developments: Vol 3” by Magnus Haavelsrud
In his latest book, Magnus Haavelsrud sees peace developments as upward movements of equity, empathy, the healing of past and present traumas, and nonviolent conflict transformation. Haavelsrud asks and answers how education can support and initiate such upward movements from the levels of everyday life to global affairs.
New Issue of In Factis Pax now available: Volume 14 Number 2, 2020
Volume 14 Number 2, 2020 of In Factis Pax, the peer-reviewed online journal of peace education and social justice, is now available.
The Dialogical Turn: A Review Essay of “Peacebuilding Through Dialogue: Education, Human Transformation, and Conflict Resolution”
“Peacebuilding Through Dialogue” is a valuable collection of reflections on the meaning, complexity, and application of dialogue. The collection advances our understanding of dialogue and its applicability in multiple and diverse contexts. This review essay by Dale Snauwaert summarizes specific reflections of dialogue in the domains of education, followed by a reflection on the dialogical turn in moral and political philosophy.
Evelin Lindner’s Blue Planet Perspective for Transforming Humiliation and Terror
In this review essay, Janet Gerson writes that to understand Dr. Evelin Lindner and her new book “Honor, Humiliation and Terror: An Explosive Mix and How We Can Defuse It with Dignity” is to seek out an innovative transdisciplinary approach to key crises of our times. Her purpose is “intellectual activism” laid out through a “painter’s way of seeing, a journey in search of new levels of meaning.”
Book review: Education with the Grain of the Universe
“Education with the Grain of the Universe,” edited by J. Denny Weaver, highlights a theological background for Anabaptist-Mennonite peace education.
Book Review – For the People: A Documentary History of the Struggle for Peace and Justice in the United States
“For the People: A Documentary History of the Struggle for Peace and Justice in the United States,” edited by Charles F. Howlettt and Robbie Lieberman, is a volume in the Information Age Press series: Peace Education, edited by Laura Finley & Robin Cooper. This review, authored by Kazuyo Yamane, is one in a series co-published by the Global Campaign for Peace Education and In Factis Pax: Journal of Peace Education and Social Justice toward promoting peace education scholarship.
Sustainable Just Peace: Jeffery Sachs’s “The Age of Sustainable Development”
Jeffery Sachs’s theory of sustainable development, as articulated in his remarkably perceptive, original, and inspirational book, The Age of Sustainable Development (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015), offers a comprehensive analytic and normative framework for an expanded conception of peace, human rights and global justice, and peace education.
Book Review – A global security system: an alternative to war. 2016 edition
A global security system summarizes some key proposals for ending war and developing alternative approaches to global security that have been advanced over the past half century. The report also asserts that a sustainable peace is possible and an alternative security system necessary to attain it. Moreover, it is not necessary to start from scratch; much of the groundwork for an alternative security system is already in place.
Book review: Understanding peace cultures
“Understanding peace cultures,” edited by Rebecca L. Oxford, is a volume in the Information Age Press series: Peace Education, edited by Laura Finley & Robin Cooper. This review, authored by Sandra L. Candel, is one in a series co-published by the Global Campaign for Peace Education and In Factis Pax: Journal of Peace Education and Social Justice toward promoting peace education scholarship.
Book review – “Interfaith leadership: a primer” by Eboo Patel
In this book review, Betty Reardon suggests that Eboo Patel’s “Interfaith leadership: a primer” is an invaluable resource for peace education. In this manual on the development of interfaith leadership, Patel provides a model for the construction of learning programs intended to develop fundamental knowledge and practical skills of peacemaking in this society and with adaptations to the global level, providing all the components of the design and implementation of a peacelearning curriculum.