Just Peacemaking & Nonviolence
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Moved from Tuesday, April 14, 2020 to Tue, October 8, 2019 in order to coincide with Orlando Thinkers' Discussion: The Strategy for Making Peace https://www.meetup.com/Orlando-Thinkers-Discussion/events/264768494
Valerie Elverton Dixon (1) has done a good job summarizing the ten principles of Just Peacemaking:
• support nonviolent direct action
• take independent initiatives to reduce threat
• use cooperative conflict resolution
• acknowledge responsibility for conflict and injustice, and seek repentance and forgiveness
• advance democracy, human rights, and interdependence; foster just and sustainable economic development
• work with emerging cooperative forces in the international system
• strengthen the United Nations and international efforts for cooperation and human rights
• reduce offensive weapons and weapons trade
• encourage grassroots peacemaking groups and voluntary association
- http://justpeacetheory.com
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Matt Hoh (2) Former Marine Company Commander & State Dept Official et al https://vimeo.com/307988316
Lee Hamilton (3) on religion and the political debate of war https://youtu.be/NCr1CCU8RLw
- https://matthewhoh.com/about-me
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_H._Hamilton
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Introduction to Just Peace, a new paradigm for eliminating war
https://youtu.be/TqU70eiYyUo
Dr. Glen H. Stassen's (4) book is
Just Peacemaking: The New Paradigm for the Ethics of Peace and War
Review: "We now have three kinds of ethical theory to deal with regarding the threat of war: pacifism, just war theory, and just peacemaking theory. The development of just peacemaking theory is a response to clear need, and increasingly so in our time. An ethic of peace and war that still operates with only pacifism and just war theory is outdated."
Pulled from: https://www.amazon.com/Just-Peacemaking-Paradigm-Ethics-Peace/dp/082981793X
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160101205414/https://www.fuller.edu/microsites/be-inspired/our-voices/glen-h--stassen-leaves-legacy-of-passionate-commitment-to-social-justice-and-peacemaking/
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A concise 10 minutes on the ripple effect of Nonviolence https://youtu.be/-ebieLANxoc
Emmanuel Charles McCarthy is a priest of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic church in communion with the Holy See. He has been a Catholic priest since he was ordained on 9 August 1981, in Damascus, Syria. (5) Prior to entering the priesthood he was a U.S. Marine.
Emmanuel Charles McCarthy (https://g.co/kgs/0t5Uqm) on Nonviolence
If you'd like to consider and converse on this topic in advance to our time together in person please, feel free to watch ECM's lecture "The Greatest Error in History: Christianity Placing Violence Under the Patronage of Jesus" https://www.meetup.com/Central-Florida-Philosophy/messages/boards/thread/51690335 and then make comment within the thread.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Charles_McCarthy
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For those caring to deep dive, here is His Holiness the Dalai Lama participating in a panel discussion featuring Sister Helen Prejean and Vincent Harding and moderator professor Sidney Burris https://youtu.be/isAQmVndhuM
Dr. Glen Stassen tells how his proposal for Syria's abandonment of chemical weapons was picked up by Sec. of State John Kerry and came to fruition https://youtu.be/lQwclQq3Gq0
Finally, Dr. Stassen describes why theories of Just War and Pacifism haven't been successful in creating peace https://youtu.be/x2Dxsor0Xbs
Just Peacemaking & Nonviolence