Contents and Excerpts

PEACE ECOLOGY: TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: From the War Economy to Peace Ecology

1 Scarcity, Abundance, and Structural Peace

2 The Triumph of the Commons

3 Back to Basics: Reclaiming Life’s Essentials

4 Free at Last: Empathy, Solidarity, and the Gift Economy

5 Flirting with Disaster: Community Resilience in Times of Crisis

6 Resource Conflicts, or Sustainable Collaborations?

7 Transborder Peace Ecology

8 Collective Reenchantment

Conclusion: Restabilizing the Habitat and Ourselves

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOK

“Peace Ecology: Deep Solutions in an Age of Water Scarcity and War” (Common Dreams, 11/10/14)

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Clip: “Any exploration of processes confronting these eventualities is potentially revolutionary in its full dimensions. The set of interrelated themes brought together under the rubric of peace ecology remain grounded in the notion that the crises of scarcity and conflict are also opportunities for mutually beneficial engagement born of necessity yet aimed at longer-term sustainability. The cultivation of a sense of shared destiny and mutual necessity can bring even ardent transnational adversaries to the negotiating table, since, as Alexander Carius reminds us, ‘environmental problems ignore political borders.’ This emerging holistic perspective suggests that peoples and nations have the potential to find ways of managing ecological concerns that not only work to avoid conflicts but that can also serve to promote peaceful relations among human communities and with the environment itself.”

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