Transforming Terror : Remembering the Soul of the World / / Karin Lofthus Carrington, Susan Griffin

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (390 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.325
• Soggetto topico: Violence -- Prevention; Terrorism - Psychological aspects; Terror - Prevention; Terrorism; Violence; Emotional intelligence
• Soggetto non controllato: activist; amos oz; bombing; civilians; comparative religion; compassion; conflict; crusade; daniel ellsberg; desmond tutu; fatema mernissi; forgiveness; fritjof capra; george lakoff; healing; holy war; huston smith; islam; jack kornfield; jihad; mahmoud darwish; nonfiction; pacifism; peace; political leaders; redemption; religious war; riane eisler; sociology; terrorism; terrorist violence; terrorist; terry tempest williams; violence; war on terror; world peace
• Persona (resp. second.): CarringtonKarin Lofthus; GriffinSusan
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Transforming Terror -- Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. A Deeper Look -- CHAPTER 1. Terror and Terrorism -- Civilian casualties: The New Frontline -- A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War -- Statement of the Under-Secretary-General at the Open Meeting of the Security Council on Protection Civilians in Armed Conflict, June 28, 2006 -- U.S. Nuclear Terrorism -- The Truth of War -- Afternoon -- A World Free of Nuclear Weapons -- The First Car Bomb -- Radiation and Children: The Ignored Victims -- Casida of the Lament -- An Injured Child -- Remarks at the Stockholm International Forum on Genocide Prevention -- Beyond the War on Terror: Understanding Reflexive Thought -- The American Psyche after September 11 -- On Religion and Terrorism -- The Spiritual Source of Islam -- Terrorism: Theirs and Ours -- Solidarity Against All Forms of Terrorism -- Lynched for No Offense -- Fatwa Issued on July 28, 2005; The Fiqh Council of North America -- Invocation for the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for 9/11 -- I Have Come to This Earth -- CHAPTER 2. An Unbearable Heartache: Trauma, Violence, and Memory -- The Aftermath of Violence: Trauma and Recovery -- Writings for a Liberation Psychology -- Ghosts and Echoes: Reflections after 9/11 -- Be Ahead of All Parting -- The Deeper Wound -- The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda -- Just One Story -- Unfolding -- The Hidden Damage of Nuclear Weapons -- The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade -- Under Bombardment in Beirut -- I Just Missed the Bus and I'll Be Late for Work -- Interrupted Subjects -- Not a Pass -- Peace -- Shantideva's Prayer: Buddhist Traditional Prayer (translated by the Dalai Lama) -- We Are Fields before Each Other -- CHAPTER 3. Denial, Dogma, and the Heroic Myth -- How to Cure a Fanatic -- The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness -- A Ritual to Read to Each Other -- Terror Comes Full Circle -- He Would Need Some Shoes -- Thoughts for the Times on War and Death -- Our Culture's Divided Soul -- The Denial of Death -- The Verbal Weapon of Mass Destruction -- Speech Opposing the Post-9/11 Use of Force Pact, September 14, 2001 -- Against Certainty -- Another Kind of Heroism -- On Vulnerability and the Sukkah of Shalom -- PART TWO. Paths to Transformation0 -- CHAPTER 4. In a Dark Time: The Wisdom in Grief, Fear, and Despair -- Healing Through the Dark Emotions in an Age of Global Threat -- An Interview by David Montenegro -- In a Dark Time -- Thoughts in the Presence of Fear -- The Testing-Tree -- Seeing Red: In a Dark Night of The American Soul -- A Terrible Love of War -- Morphologies of Silence -- overcoming cruelty -- Eulogy for The Martyred Children -- CHAPTER 5. Truth Telling and Justice -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Adopted and proclaimed December 10, 1948, by the General Assembly of the United Nations, resolution 217 A (III) -- Naming the Perpetrator -- There Was no Farewell -- Facing the Inferno: Transforming Terror into Tenderness -- Half-life of a Despot -- Moby Dick -- Crises of the Republic -- A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers) -- The Tenacity of Memory (La Tenacidad de la Memoria) -- Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers -- Rape as a War Crime -- The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda -- Facing into Truth: The Most Reverend Frank T. Griswold, XXV Presiding Bishop and Primate, the Episcopal Church, USA -- Zoroastrian Prayer -- CHAPTER 6. Reclaiming Our Selves: Gender and Violence -- Terror, Domination, and Partnership -- The Crowned Cannibals -- The Mind as Erotic Weapon -- The Birth of Plea sure -- A Woman's Side of the Story -- Please Listen to the Women of Iraq -- Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan -- Behind Bars -- Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link between Masculinity and Violence -- She Cannot Be Lost to Me -- Joining Prayers -- Serenity -- Acceptance Speech, Nobel Peace Prize -- Prayer of The Virgin of Guadalupe -- CHAPTER 7. Compassion and the Interdependence of Peace -- Compassion as the pillar of World Peace: His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama -- From Them to Us -- Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation -- Falling Bodies -- Forgive Us -- Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? -- Sustainability, Security, and Peace -- Wilenska -- On Forgiveness -- Good Friday World -- A Heart as Wide as the World -- A Task -- The Table of Peace -- The Courage to Wait -- Buddhist Meditation on Compassion -- In My Soul -- CHAPTER 8. Paths to Transformation -- Hope in The Dark -- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Compassion -- Nonviolence: Weapon of the Brave, Weapon of the Future -- Ahimsa or the Way of Nonviolence -- Candles in Babylon -- On Citizen Diplomacy -- A New World Diplomacy -- On Courage and Resistance -- War Crimes Tribunal May End Impurity but They Can't Heal Hatred -- The Courage to Love -- At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace -- The Greatest Danger -- Thanks but No Thanks -- The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty -- The Generation of Trust -- Contributor Biographies -- Credits
• Sommario/riassunto: This inspired collection offers a new paradigm for moving the world beyond violence as the first, and often only, response to violence. Through essays and poetry, prayers and meditations, Transforming Terror powerfully demonstrates that terrorist violence-defined here as any attack on unarmed civilians-can never be stopped by a return to the thinking that created it. A diverse array of contributors-writers, healers, spiritual and political leaders, scientists, and activists, including Desmond Tutu, Huston Smith, Riane Eisler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amos Oz, Fatema Mernissi, Fritjof Capra, George Lakoff, Mahmoud Darwish, Terry Tempest Williams, and Jack Kornfield-considers how we might transform the conditions that produce terrorist acts and bring true healing to the victims of these acts. Broadly encompassing both the Islamic and Western worlds, the book explores the nature of consciousness and offers a blueprint for change that makes peace possible. From unforgettable firsthand accounts of terrorism, the book draws us into awareness of our ecological and economic interdependence, the need for connectedness, and the innate human capacity for compassion.
• Titolo autorizzato: Transforming Terror
• ISBN: 1-283-27811-1; 9786613278111; 0-520-94945-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789634503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II