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Put in the simplest possible terms, a peace culture is a culture that promotes peaceable diversity. Such a culture includes lifeways, patterns of belief, values, behavior, and accompanying institutional arrangements that promote mutual caring and well-being as well as an equality that includes appreciation of difference, stewardship, and equitable sharing of the earth’s resources among its members and with all living beings. It offers mutual security for humankind in all its diversity through a profound sense of species identity as well as kinship with the living earth. There is no need for violence. In other words, peaceableness is an action concept, involving a constant shaping and reshaping of understandings, situations, and behaviors in a constantly changing lifeworld, to sustain well-being for all.
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This text was first published as: Cultures of Peace: the Hidden Side of History (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000), pages 1–7. Permission was granted in July 2015 by Syracuse University Press.
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See Chap. 9 [of Cultures of Peace] for a description of the Earth Charter Movement. A powerful voice for the deep ecology movement is Joanna Macy, whose most recent book (coauthored with Molly Brown) is Coming Back to Life: Practises to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (Gabriola Island, Canada: New Society, 1998).
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Eleanora Masini, ed., The Future of Asian Cultures (Bangkok: UNESCO Regional Office, 1993), 5.
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Magorah Maruyamah, Mindscapes in Management: Use of Individual Differences in Multicultural Management (Aldershot, Hants, U.K.: Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1994), 57.
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Boulding, J.R. (2017). Peace Culture: An Overview (2000). In: Boulding, J. (eds) Elise Boulding: A Pioneer in Peace Research, Peacemaking, Feminism, Future Studies and the Family. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31364-1_7
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