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Understanding The South China Sea: An Explorative Cultural Analysis, Hans-Dieter Evers
Understanding The South China Sea: An Explorative Cultural Analysis, Hans-Dieter Evers
Hans-Dieter Evers
The South China Sea has attracted considerable attention among politicians, journalists and scholars since it has become a contested maritime space. Most works concentrate on conflicts and negotiations to resolve the ensuing issues. In this paper, a cultural theory will be applied to stress the importance of conceptions of space found in different cultures. The South China Sea is defined as "Mediterranean." By comparing it to other maritime spaces, like the Baltic and the Mediterranean Sea, lessons will be drawn from the "longue durée" of history, as analysed by French historian Fernand Braudel and from concepts of the cultural theory …
Mahatma Gandhi, Lester R. Kurtz
Mahatma Gandhi, Lester R. Kurtz
Lester R. Kurtz
Mahatma Gandhi, is widely cited by contemporary activists as a source of inspiration and strategies. Gandhi was arguably unparalleled at mobilizing resources, taking advantage of – and creating – political opportunities, and effectively framing such messages as justice, equality, and independence or freedom (Swaraj, self-reliance). His legacy has almost become a cliché among movement organizers worldwide.
Abdul Ghaffar Khan's Nonviolent Jihad, Lester R. Kurtz
Abdul Ghaffar Khan's Nonviolent Jihad, Lester R. Kurtz
Lester R. Kurtz
Examines Abdul Ghaffar Khan's nonviolent civil resistance rooted in Islam and growing out of a violent mountain culture in the Northwest Frontier Province of British India. The movement he mobilized counters the misunderstandings about Islam as fundamentally violent and the idea that nonviolent resistance cannot come out of a violent culture.
How Shall We Fight Imperialism? A Response To Stephen Gowans, Lester R. Kurtz
How Shall We Fight Imperialism? A Response To Stephen Gowans, Lester R. Kurtz
Lester R. Kurtz
No abstract provided.
Conflict Resolution, Provocation Or Transformation? Ask Gandhi, Lester R. Kurtz, Daniel Ritter
Conflict Resolution, Provocation Or Transformation? Ask Gandhi, Lester R. Kurtz, Daniel Ritter
Lester R. Kurtz
No abstract provided.
Peaceful Relationships, Lester R. Kurtz
Peaceful Relationships, Lester R. Kurtz
Lester R. Kurtz
Peaceful relationships are sustained interactions characterized by the absence or low levels of violence. Easier to theorize or write about than to sustain in practice, from interpersonal interactions to relations at the global level and among states, institutions, and social groups, peaceful relationships are the building blocks of a more peaceful world. Interwoven with a web of violence in human affairs is a web of peaceful relations, from the micro level to the macro level, that probably shape most human behavior.
Sustainable Development, Anita Komandari, Lester R. Kurtz
Sustainable Development, Anita Komandari, Lester R. Kurtz
Lester R. Kurtz
The dominant model of development, characterized by large-scale industrialization and neoliberal policies, is unsustainable in terms of its role in the marginalization of many segments of human society and the exploitation of nature. This article presents the imperative need for a development model that is sustainable, arguing that it is important to break out of the unilateral ideology of devel- opment and incorporate democratic pluralism. It discusses some important aspects of a community-centric development model that form the foundations of sustain- ability, namely, community control and management of resources, community self-rule, and self-reliance.
Dalai Lama Darshan, Lester R. Kurtz
From Heresies To Holy Wars: Toward A Theory Of Religious Conflict, Lester R. Kurtz
From Heresies To Holy Wars: Toward A Theory Of Religious Conflict, Lester R. Kurtz
Lester R. Kurtz
Explores the elements of a theory of religious conflict, starting with Simmel's understanding of conflict as a form of human sociation and religion as content of a conflict (religious rhetoric and framing are used to carry or explain the conflict) vs. the form of religious conflict, in which the conflict itself takes on a sacred nature. I also examine the ritualization of conflict and the nature of conflict symbols, that is highly-charged symbols that become lightning rods for conflict.
Untangling The Web Of Violence, Lester R. Kurtz, Jennifer Turpin
Untangling The Web Of Violence, Lester R. Kurtz, Jennifer Turpin
Lester R. Kurtz
No abstract provided.
The Politics Of Heresy, Lester R. Kurtz
Freedom And Domination, Lester R. Kurtz