Language, Violence, and Nonviolence Research Group at Virginia Tech
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Sanjay Lal
Paul Heilker
Emily Blair
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Fitz-Gibbon, Andrew — Positive Peace: Reflections on Peace Education, Nonviolence, and Social Change.
Fitz-Gibbon, Andrew, ed. Positive Peace: Reflections on Peace Education, Nonviolence, and Social Change. Rodopi: Amsterdam. 2010. Print.
This collection of essays displays varied views on what peace means and how one may achieve it, with several different practical tactics and anecdotes throughout. In the Editorial Forward, William C. Gay sets up basic vocabulary for the text, noting, “negative peace is defined as the mere absence of war, while positive peace is defined as also entailing the presence of justice […] The ultimate goal is to achieve social justice” (xv). In this framework, a peaceful society, in addition to not being at war, is one in which society is balanced and without violence, including complex structural systems of violence.
I reference here specific essays instead of referring to the work as a whole.