The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy Series

Interest in pacifism?an idea with a long history in philosophical thought and in several religious traditions?is growing. The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence is the first comprehensive reference designed to introduce newcomers and researchers to the many varieties of pacifism and nonviolence, to their history and philosophy, and to pacifism?s most serious critiques. The volume offers 32 brand new chapters from the world?s leading experts across a diverse range of fields, who together provide a broad discussion of pacifism and nonviolence in connection with virtue ethics, capital punishment, animal ethics, ecology, queer theory, and feminism, among other areas. This Handbook is divided into four sections: (1) Historical and Tradition-Specific Considerations, (2) Conceptual and Moral Considerations, (3) Social and Political Considerations, and (4) Applications. It concludes with an Afterword by James Lawson, one of the icons of the nonviolent American Civil Rights movement. The text will be invaluable to scholars and students, as well as to activists and general readers interested in peace, nonviolence, and critical perspectives on war and violence.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Andrew Fiala

Part I: Historical and Tradition-Specific Considerations

1. A History of the Idea of Pacifism and Nonviolence: Ancient to Modern

Duane L. Cady

2. Nonviolence and Pacifism in the Long Nineteenth Century

Michael Allan Fox

3. Pacifism in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

Andrew Fiala

4. Christian Pacifism

Daniel A. Dombrowski

5. Peace and Nonviolence in Islam

Ramin Jahanbegloo

6. Philosophy of Nonviolence in Africa

Gail M. Presbey

7. Nonviolence in the Dharma Traditions: Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism

Veena R. Howard

8. The Gandhi-King Tradition and Satyagraha

Barry L. Gan

Part II: Conceptual and Moral Considerations

9. Pacifism and the Concept of Morality

Robert L. Holmes

10. Peace: Negative and Positive

David Boersema

11. The Pacifist Critique of the Just War Tradition

Cheyney Ryan

12. Contingent Pacifism

Paul Morrow

13. Humanitarian Intervention and the Problem of Genocide and Atrocity

Jennifer Kling

14. Virtue Ethics and Nonviolence

David K. Chan

15. Personal Pacifism and Conscientious Objection

Eric Reitan

16. Pacifism: Does it Make Moral Sense?

Jan Narveson

17. Pacifism as Pathology

José-Antonio Orosco

Part III: Social and Political Considerations

18. The Triumph of the Liberal Democratic Peace and the Dangers of Its Success

Fuat Gursozlu

19. Human Rights and International Law

Robert Paul Churchill

20. Hospitality, Identity, and Cosmopolitanism: Antidotes to the Violence of Otherness

Eddy M. Souffrant

21. Warism and the Dominant Worldview

Duane L. Cady

22. The Military-Industrial Complex

William Gay

23. Feminism and Nonviolent Activism

Danielle Poe

24. Queer Oppression and Pacifism

Blake Hereth

Part IV: Applications

25. Care Theory, Peacemaking, and Education

Nel Noddings

26. Becoming Nonviolent: Sociobiological, Neurophysiological, and Spiritual Perspectives

Andrew Fitz-Gibbon

27. The Death Penalty and Nonviolence: Justice Beyond Empathy

Lloyd Steffen

28. Ecology and Pacifism

Mark Woods

29. Animals, Vegetarianism, and Nonviolence

Christopher Chapple

30. Children, Violence, and Nonviolence

Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon

31. Peace Pedagogy from the Borderlines

Renee Bricker, Yi Deng, Donna A. Gessell, and Michael Proulx

Afterword: Nonviolence and the Non-Existent Country

James M. Lawson, Jr.

Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Ethics Center at Fresno State University, USA. A former president of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, his publications include The Just War Myth (2008), Public War, Private Conscience (2010), The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy (editor, 2015), Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues, 9th edition (with Barbara MacKinnon, 2017), and Transformative Pacifism (forthcoming).