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The Other America: The Forgivers and the Peacemakers
Author(s) -
Boulding Elise
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0130.00270
Subject(s) - forgiveness , mediation , declaration , peace movement , economic justice , action (physics) , sociology , peace and conflict studies , political science , law , peace education , conflict resolution , general assembly , environmental ethics , politics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
For Panel on “Is America a Forgiving Place?” at Inangural Conference, Toward a Deeper Understanding of Forgiveness, Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture, College of the Holy Cross, Septemper 15, 2001. The history of the traditions of nonviolence in America beginning with William Penn's Holy Experiment is discussed briefly and is related to the United Nations’declaration of a Decade of Education for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence. Current movements including the restorative justice movement and community‐based mediation; dialogue; and nonviolence training and peace action, as well as the growing field of peace research and peace studies, are reviewed in light of their potential for further development of peace culture in the United States.