Interpretations of Peace in History and Culture, 2012 Many Peaces Series

This is the first volume in the trilogy 'Many Peaces' on transrational peace and elicitive conflict transformation. It proposes an innovative analysis of peace interpretations in global history and contemporary cultures of peace, the so-called five families of energetic, moral, modern, post-modern, and transrational.

Introduction Energetic Interpretations of Peace Moral Interpretations of Peace Modern Interpretations of Peace Postmodern Interpretations of Peace Transrational Interpretations of Peace Conclusion

WOLFGANG DIETRICH holds the UNESCO Chair for Peace Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and is the program director of the MA Program for Peace, Development and Security and International Conflict Transformation at the same University. He is Visiting Professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria, at the Centre for Peace and Development Studies at the University of Castellón, Spain, the University College of Oslo, Norway, and at the United Nation's Peace University in Ciudad Colón, Costa Rica. He has written almost 200 books and articles, and his work has been published in five languages.