Peace Quest: Links to Contents

My book Peace Quest: Cultivating Peace in a Violent Culture, originally published in 2003, received critical acclaim from the authors Howard Zinn, Laura Huxley, John W.Travis, and John Robbins. To read each section, please select the link below, and it will take you to the appropriate page. Links are underlined. Subsections of each chapter are noted for your information.

Overview
Introduction 
    •Defining Peace 

    •Present Unpeaceful Conditions and the Pathology of Violence

    •Human Nature as Primarily Peaceful 

    •Culture, Character, and Peace

    •Violence in the Culture of the United States 

    •Quixotic Aspects of Writing about Peace

    •Peace and the Limbic Brain 

Chapter 1: Creating a Culture of Peace for Children 

    •Parenting for Peace 

    •Communication Skills for Peace 

    •Self-worth and Peace

    •Education for Peace  

    •Peaceful Play and Entertainment 

Chapter 2: Adult Development and Peace 

    •Therapy for a Culture of Peace: Limbic Healing from Trauma

    •Fortunate, Intermediate, and Catastrophic Altruists

    •Portrait of Two Altruistic Peace Builders: Wally and Juanita     Nelson 

    •Portrait of a Catastrophic Altruistic Peace Builder: Norm Lee’s Story

    •Activism for Peace and Justice 

    •Meditation 

Chapter 3: Contexts of Peace

    •Structural Justice

    •Beyond Group Narcissism 

    •Peace with Other Species

    •Ecological peace and justice

Chapter 4: Obstacles to Peace  

    •Dealing with Leaders, Positive and Negative

    •The Revolving Door of War: Business and Politics  

    •Bystanders

    •Tragic Limits to Nonviolence: the Need for International     Peacekeeping Forces, Law, and the International Criminal     Court

    •Religious Fundamentalism 

Conclusion 

Endnotes 

References 

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