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Toward a Peaceable Future

Redefining Peace, Security, and Kyosei from a Multidisciplinary Perspective

Edited by Yoichiro Murakami, Noriko Kawamura and Shin Chiba

by Martha Cottam, Hidenori Fujita, William S. Hallagan, Yijun He, Gregory Hooks, Frederick S. Inaba and Tatsuro Kunugi

Published by: WSU Press

Imprint: International Christian University (Japan) and Was

254 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 × 16.00 mm

Paperback
9780615127101
Published: March 2005

£18.99

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Using concise terms, peace could be defined as freedom from hostility; security as freedom from danger; and kyosei as social responsibility. Can a new comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to peace studies be developed? Why is a new direction essential, and what kind of impact might it have? How can educational institutions reach across disciplines to educate students about these globally important concepts?

In a pioneering cross-cultural, transnational and multifaceted endeavor, Japanese and American scholars from various disciplines jointly explore these challenging questions by redefining the three key concepts of "peace, security and kyosei." Based on academic analyses in Japan and the United States, the book offers new perspectives for interdisciplinary peace studies and stimulates a public dialogue on how to shape a safer and more peaceful future for individuals, communities, and nations.

Human Security as an Integrating Concept in Peace, Security, and Kyosei (Conviviality) Studies
Martha Cottam, Orwin Marenin

Redressing Security Deficits in Our Fragmented World: UN Perspectives and Beyond
Tatsuro Kunugi

Reflections on Peace, Security, and Kyosei (Conviviality) from Several Psychological Perspectives
David W Rackham

Psychological Dimensions of Conflict
Craig D Parks, Asako Stone

Kyosei: Vision for Education and Society in the 21st Century
Hidenori Fujita

Path to Positive Peace: On the Creative Destruction of U.S. Militarism
Gregory Hooks

Examination of the Economic Theory of Civil Conflict
William S Hallagan, Yijun He, Frederick S Inaba, Mudziviri Nziramasanga, AKM Mahbub Morshed

Scaling Down the Search for Peace and Security: Lessons Learned from the Emergence of Subnational Collaboratives
Edward P Weber

Coordinating Homeland Security in the United States: Problems and Prospects
Steven Stehr

Risk Perceptions in the Risk Society: The Cognitive Architecture of Risk of Japanese and Americans
Eugene A Rosa, Noriyuki Matsuda

Introduction to Safety Theory
Yoichiro Murakami

Ideas of Public and Fundamental Happiness for the World of Diverging Convergence
Yoshimichi Someya

Understanding Peace, Security, and Kyosei: An Intercultural Communication Perspective
Mary M Meares

Ethical and Religious Perspectives on Kyosei (Living Together)
Michael W Myers

Understanding the People of Other Faiths: Conviviality among Religions
Anri Morimoto

21st Century U.S. Peace Movement
TV Reed

Achieving Peace and Security: A Transnational Feminist Environmentalist Perspective
Noel Sturgeon

War Memory and Peace: A Historian's Case Study of the Myths of Japan's Surrender
Noriko Kawamura

Reflection on the Pacifist Principle of the Japanese Constitution and on the Idea of Human Security
Shin Chiba

Noriko Kawamura is professor of history at Washington State University. She is the author of Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War (University of Washington Press, 2015) and Turbulence in the Pacific: Japanese–U.S. Relations during World War I (Praeger, 2000); and coeditor of Building New Pathways to Peace (University of Washington Press, 2011) and Toward a Peaceable Future: Redefining Peace, Security and Kyosei from a Multidisciplinary Perspective (Thomas S. Foley Institute of Public Policy and Public Service, Washington State University Press, 2005).