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Engaging Personal Peace: Micro and Macro Facets of Needs, Emotions and Mindfulness

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Personal Peacefulness

Part of the book series: Peace Psychology Book Series ((PPBS,volume 20))

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Personal peace is a construct that can be approached from multiple perspectives. This chapter attempts to examine personal peacefulness as it is connected to human needs, emotions, and the practice of mindfulness. We examine these phenomena as they are experienced by the individual and also how individuals impact and are impacted by the larger social contexts in which they live. We examine the theoretical frameworks of these elements to personal peacefulness and then offer a case study to further explore their manifestation in real world examples. We present a case where members of Jewish Israeli and Palestinian community members spend time at mindfulness retreats to be together, explore the conflict in their region, and develop actions and interventions for peace. While the purpose of this chapter is to examine these constructs as they relate to personal peacefulness, we make a clear case that these processes cannot happen in isolation of larger initiatives toward structural peacebuilding.

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  1. Conflict Resolution Graduate Program, Portland State University, PO Box 751, 97207, Portland, OR, USA

    Barbara Tint PhD & Mary Zinkin PhD

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Tint, B., Zinkin, M. (2014). Engaging Personal Peace: Micro and Macro Facets of Needs, Emotions and Mindfulness. In: Sims, G., Nelson, L., Puopolo, M. (eds) Personal Peacefulness. Peace Psychology Book Series, vol 20. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9366-2_7

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