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A Grand Design for Peace and Reconciliation: Achieving Kyosei in East Asia

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A Grand Design for Peace and Reconciliation: Achieving Kyosei in East Asia - Murakami, Yoichiro (Editor), and Schoenbaum, Thomas J (Editor)
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Scholars from Japan and a range of other countries explore in this book the still-unfinished effort to achieve the reconciliation of old enmities left over from past wars in East Asia. They present concrete policy proposals for a 'grand design' of peace based on the Japanese concept of 'kyosei' , a word roughly translated as 'conviviality'. A positive peace through kyosei means not only the absence of violence, but also the amelioration of past injustices, exploitation and oppression. The diversity of disciplines ...

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A Grand Design for Peace and Reconciliation: Achieving Kyosei in East Asia 2008, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham

ISBN-13: 9781847206664

Hardcover