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  title info:
    title: Civil paths to peace
    sub title: report of the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding
  name:
    name part: Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 96 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Civil Paths to Peace contains the analyses and findings of the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding, established in response to the 2005 request of Commonwealth Head of Government for the Commonwealth Secretary-General to 'explore initiatives to promote mutual understanding and respect among all faiths and communities in the Commonwealth.' This report focuses particularly on the issues of terrorism, extremism, conflict and violence, which are much in ascendancy and afflict Commonwealth countries as well as the rest of the world. It argues that cultivating respect and understanding is both important in itself and consequential in reducing violence and terrorism. It further argues that cultivated violence is generated through fomenting disrespect and fostering confrontational misunderstandings. The report looks at the mechanisms through which violence is cultivated through advocacy and recruitment, and the pre-existing inequalities, deprivations and humiliations on which those advocacies draw. These diagnoses also clear the way for methods of countering disaffection and violence. In various chapters the different connections are explored and examined to yield general policy recommendations. Accepting diversity, respecting all human beings, and understanding the richness of perspectives that people have are of great relevance for all Commonwealth countries, and for its 1.8 billion people. They are also importance for the rest of the world. The civil paths to peace are presented here for use both inside the Commonwealth and beyond its boundaries. The Commonwealth has survived and flourished, despite the hostilities associated with past colonial history, through the use of a number of far-sighted guiding principles. The Commission argues that those principles have continuing relevance today for the future of the Commonwealth--and also for the world at large.
  table of contents: Why do respect and understanding matter? -- The nature and nurture of violence -- Poverty, inequality and humiliation -- History, grievance and conflict -- Political participation, dialogue and inclusion -- The role of media and communication -- Young people and education -- Multilateralism and the international order -- The way forward and conclusions.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-96).
  subject:
    geographic code: b------
  subject:
    topic: Peace
  subject:
    topic: Civil society
    geographic: Commonwealth countries
  subject:
    topic: Violence
    geographic: Commonwealth countries
    topic: Prevention
  identifier: 9780850928709
  identifier: 0850928702
  record info:
    record content source: DJB
    record creation date: 080103
    record change date: 20151109040802.0
    record identifier: in00002363782