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This collection brings together accomplished and emerging scholars who are researching and working for grassroots social change throughout Africa and Asia. The essays within are sourced from a series of seminars held during the founding African Peace Research and Education Association Conference at the Economic Community of West African States Parliament in Abuja, Nigeria. The book draws strategic lines of connection between diverse peoples on the two most populous continents. Looking at contemporary Gandhian, Chinese, armed guerrilla, insurrectionist, state-supported, and civil resistance movements, each essay reviews recent attempts at peace-building, while also placing modern efforts in traditional, historic, indigenous contexts.

Peace-building --- Nonviolence --- Non-violence --- Government, Resistance to --- Pacifism --- Building peace --- Peacebuilding --- Conflict management --- Peace --- Peacekeeping forces

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In Resilient Communities, Jana Krause focuses on civilian agency and mobilization 'from below' and explains violence and non-violence in communal wars. Drawing on extensive field research on ethno-religious conflicts in Ambon/Maluku Province in eastern Indonesia and Jos/Plateau State in central Nigeria, this book shows how civilians responded to local conflict dynamics very differently, evading, supporting, or collectively resisting armed groups. Combining evidence collected from more than 200 interviews with residents, community leaders, and former fighters, local scholarly work (in Indonesian), and local newspaper-based event data analysis, this book explains civilian mobilization, militia formation, and conflict escalation. The book's comparison of vulnerable mixed communities and (un)successful prevention efforts demonstrates how under courageous leadership resilient communities can emerge that adapt to changing conflict zones and collectively prevent killings. By developing the concepts of communal war and social resilience, Krause extends our understanding of local violence, (non-)escalation, and implications for prevention.

Ethnic conflict --- Communalism --- Nonviolence --- Passive resistance --- Nonviolent noncooperation --- Resistance, Passive --- Satyagraha --- Direct action --- Non-violence --- Government, Resistance to --- Pacifism --- Ethnic relations --- Ethnocentrism --- Conflict, Ethnic --- Ethnic violence --- Inter-ethnic conflict --- Interethnic conflict --- Social conflict

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Publié en 1916, "Le Feu" d'Henri Barbusse (1873-1935) est sans doute le plus lu des romans français de la Grande Guerre (200000 exemplaires vendus en 1918 ; 350000 en 1924). Le présent ouvrage interroge, dans une perspective historique et littéraire, la manière dont s'est construit son succès et examine comment une telle œuvre, porteuse d'un réel discours pacifiste, a pu être éditée durant le conflit, sans être mutilée par la censure, et obtenir le prix Goncourt. Il propose une relecture du "Feu" en le replaçant dans son contexte de production, en étant attentif à sa langue, à sa composition, à ses héros ainsi qu'à son histoire rédactionnelle, tout en se méfiant des effets de sens que Barbusse a imposés après coup. Ainsi, "Le Feu" est-il situé dans l'univers des discours qui disent la guerre pendant la guerre. S'intéresser aux discours du "Feu" amène à examiner, dans les jeux complexes qui les associent, les discours dont Barbusse hérite, ceux qu'il élabore et ceux qu'il suscite. En recourant à des documents jusqu'ici peu exploités, cette étude propose de nouvelles analyses des traits d'écriture les plus marquants et les plus novateurs de l'œuvre (instabilité générique, utilisation de l'argot, scénarisation de la parole, etc.).

World War, 1914-1918 --- Literature and the war --- Barbusse, Henri, --- Guerre mondiale (1914-1918) --- Littérature et guerre --- Barbusse, Henri --- French literature --- War in literature. --- Pacifism in literature. --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism. --- Première guerre mondiale --- Guerre dans la littérature --- Littérature et guerre. --- World War, 1914-1918 - Literature and the war --- Barbusse, Henri, - 1873-1935. - Le feu

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This book focuses on Prime Minister Abe’s policy toward international peace and security proposed in 2013 under the basic principle of ‘proactive contribution to peace’. To this end, this book investigates Prime Minister Abe’s policy-making process of the Peace and Security Legislation, which transformed Japan’s security policy and enabled Japan to exercise the right of ‘collective self-defense’, which used to be ‘unconstitutional’. This book evaluates the implications of the Peace and Security Legislation on three fronts, domestic, bilateral, and international, by analyzing Japan’s Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) program, the Japan-US alliance system, and Japan’s policy on international peacekeeping operations in South Sudan. This book is one of the first contributions to the research on Japan’s foreign and security policy under the Shinzo Abe administration and will be of interest to scholars, policymakers, and students of Japan, Japanese politics and international relations of the Asia-Pacific region.

Pacifism --- Peace-building --- Building peace --- Peacebuilding --- Conflict management --- Peace --- Peacekeeping forces --- Sociology, Military --- Evil, Non-resistance to --- Nonviolence --- Asia-Politics and government. --- International relations. --- Peace. --- Asian Politics. --- Foreign Policy. --- Peace Studies. --- Coexistence, Peaceful --- Peaceful coexistence --- International relations --- Disarmament --- Security, International --- War --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Asia—Politics and government.