Towards a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace

Bringing together a richly multi-disciplinary mix of contributors, Guess's and Camilleri's collection models the ethos of creative collaboration and peaceable dialogue that it advocates.-Kate Rigby, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Bath Spa University, author of Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives and Ethics for Perilous Times (2015) This thought-provoking collection of essays rekindles the hope that a promised land of peace, justice and ecological balance can still be reached.-Fabio Petito, University of Sussex Essential reading for anyone searching for ways to confront populism, militarism and unsustainable growth models.-Kevin Clements Director, Toda Peace Institute, TokyoThis fine book elaborates with courage and prophetic hope the intellectual and experiential tools we need to navigate the crucial transition to a nonviolent ethic of a just and ecologically sustainable peace.-Bishop Philip Huggins, President, National Council of Churches in Australia This book addresses the need to develop a holistic approach to countering violence that integrates notions of peace, justice and care of the Earth. It is unique in that it does not stop with the move toward articulating 'Just Peace' as a human concern but probes the mindset needed for the shift to a 'Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace'. It explores the values and principles that can guide this shift, theoretically and in practice. International in scope and grounded in the reality of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific context, the book brings together important insights drawn from the Indigenous relationship to land, ecological feminism, ecological philosophy, the social sciences more generally, and a range of religious and non-religious cosmologies.  Drawn from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, the contributors in this book apply their combined professional expertise and active engagement to illuminate the difficult choices that lie ahead.Deborah Guess is an Honorary Research Associate and Adjunct Lecturer at Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia. Joseph A. Camilleri is Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.