Beyond Global Crisis: Remedies and Road Maps by Daisaku Ikeda and His Contemporaries

by Paupp,Terrence Edward

• ISBN13: 9781412846165
• ISBN10: 1412846161
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2012-04-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this volume, Terrence Paupp critically describes the various dimensions of today's global crisis. Among other things, this volume analyes nuclear weapons proliferation climate change, and international lawlessness in the form of wars of aggression. Paupp argues that much human conflict and environmental degradation is the direct consequence of poverty and inequality. Until these issues are addressed, many of the world's problems will remain. Paupp asserts that around the world, peoples and nations are becoming more open to a strategy and culture of peace that evolves through discovering a commonality of interests, the value of mutual cooperation, and the desirability of forging consensus. By using various road maps and remedies supplied by noted Japanese peace activist Daisaku Ikeda and his contemporaries, viable solutions will emerge. In this new endeavor, equipped with some of the proposed solutions and strategies that this book provides, humanity will collectively become engaged in remaking the character of global governance in order to build a global culture of peace.

Author Biography

Terrence Edward Paupp is currently vice-president of the North American division of the International Association of Educators for World Peace. He is the author of Achieving Inclusionary Governance: Advancing Peace and Development in First and Third World Nations; Exodus from Empire: The Fall of America's Empire and the Rise of the Global Community; and The Future of Global Relations: Crumbling Walls, Rising Regions. Olivier Urbain is the director of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research. His publications include articles about the power of the arts for peace, a book, Daisaku Ikeda's Philosophy of Peace, as well as the editing of Music and Conflict Transformation. Brian J. Foley is professor of law at Florida Coastal School of Law. He has published scholarship in criminal law and procedure, evidence, sentencing, anti-terrorism law, and the law of war (jus ad bellum). Many of his writings focus on international law and security issues.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xix
Ikeda's Vision for Realizing a Global Civilization: The Power of Inner Transformation and Dialogue
The Global Crisis through the Lens of Ikeda and His Contemporaries	p. 2
Where We Are Now-and What Is Required to Achieve a Peaceful Global Civilization	p. 37
From Individual to Global Transformation: Multiple Pathways
Case Study-The Inner Transformation of JFK and the End of the Cold War	p. 70
The Power of Self-Transformation as the Beginning of Internal and External Liberation: The Nexus of Buddhism, Liberation Theology, and Law	p. 113
Dialogue and Dialogic Mechanisms: Creating a Global Framework for Deliberative Democracy, Human Rights, and Cultural Pluralism	p. 160
Visualizing a Global Civilization of Harmony and Interdependence in Concrete Terms
The Converging Theoretical and Empirical Elements of Global Civilization: International Relations, Inclusive/Humane Governance, and Cosmopolitan Democracy	p. 204
Emerging Pillars of a Peaceful Global Civilization: Nuclear Disarmament, United Nations Reform, and the International Criminal Court	p. 256
The Challenge of Climate Change: Searching for Human Solidarity in a Divided World	p. 319
Conclusion: Contextualizing Ikeda in the Struggle to Restructure International Politics	p. 349
Afterword	p. 379
Appendix Preamble of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court	p. 383
Bibliography	p. 385
Index	p. 417
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