Strategizing Global Peace
Integrating Gender, Nonviolence, and Museums for Peace
Senthan Selvarajah editor Bawa Singh editor Aslam Khan editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:7th Jan '27
£80.00
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This book explores linkages between peace and conflict covering how gender, nonviolence, and memory shape modern peace efforts.
Strategizing Global Peace: Integrating Gender, Nonviolence, and Museums for Peace in a Changing World is an interdisciplinary examination focusing on how gender, nonviolence, and collective memory shape the evolving landscape of peace in a rapidly changing world. It illuminates the historical and contemporary struggles faced by women ranging from structural inequality to direct violence while simultaneously showcasing their pivotal roles in peacebuilding across South Asia and the wider Global South. The chapters further engage with key dimensions of peace practice, including Gandhian nonviolence, peace journalism, and emerging digital technologies, each of which is transforming how societies perceive, interpret, and respond to conflict.
The book examines how museums and memorials function as pedagogical spaces for peace. By analyzing narratives of political assassinations, nuclear tragedies, and military histories, it demonstrates how public memory can foster empathy, understanding, and cross-cultural dialogue. Through the case studies of Kashmir and the Korean Peninsula, the book highlights how curated histories can help nations comprehend another’s suffering and aspirations.
Ultimately, this work lays out a clear, insightful, and hopeful pathway toward building fairer, more inclusive, and more peaceful societies in today’s complex global environment.
This vital collection offers a profound rethinking of how we build sustainable peace. By beautifully connecting the realities of gender justice, the timeless philosophy of nonviolence, and the creative pedagogy of peace museums, the authors remind us that peace is an active, lived experience. Rooted in diverse global insights, this book provides essential, field-tested frameworks for anyone dedicated to cultivating empathy, deepening democracy, and shaping a truly inclusive world. -- Rajib Timalsina, Co-Secretary General, International Peace Research Association (IPRA), Nepal
In a world where respectful and nuanced dialogue, and careful and rigorous scholarship are more important than ever, Strategizing Global Peace makes a significant contribution to peace studies. It is an engaging, well-thought collection that invites readers to reflect on our shared humanity and the enduring importance of empathy, cooperation, and constructive engagement in building a more peaceful future.
The editors Khan, Selvarajah and Singh have assembled an impressive collection of essays that examine peace from multiple perspectives, including gender, nonviolence, peace journalism, cultural memory, museums, and regional cooperation. This interdisciplinary approach encourages readers to engage with complex issues through critical reflection, avoiding simplistic answers.
Strategizing Global Peace is a timely and thought-provoking volume that reminds us that peace is not merely the absence of conflict, but an ongoing human endeavor shaped by dialogue, justice, memory, education, and mutual understanding. It reminds us that under painful layers of direct, structural and cultural violent interactions, we can always find our common humanity, available as a stable ground from which to offer better ways to deal with conflict. If we have the courage to dig deeper.
ISBN: 9798216276876
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264 pages