Lorenzo Milani's Culture of Peace Essays on Religion, Education, and Democratic Life

by Borg, Carmel; Grech, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781137382108
• ISBN10: 1137382104
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-05-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Inspired by Lorenzo Milani's (1923-1967) biography, this book takes different trajectories in promoting and problematizing peace, and confirming the complex and multifaceted nature of the struggle for authentically peaceful social relations. The chapters range from the struggle over the creation of memories to repositioning peace artifacts within museums, from rewriting history textbooks to exposing the limits of peace programs, and interrogating symbolic violence to exposing real violence in different contexts. Borg and Grech explore the Catholic Church in the post-internet world, and form an understanding of peace and community through Milani's works. This book aims to engage readers in reclaiming the right to dream of a world that disowns fatalism, a world that refuses to accept uncritically the colonization of human beings and their resources on a local and global scale.

Author Biography

Carmel Borg is Associate Professor of Education Studies at the University of Malta, Malta.

Michael Grech is Assistant Lecturer at the Junior College of the University of Malta, Malta.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
PART I: PEACE AND RELIGION – THEN AND NOW
1. The Catholic, Italian and Tuscan Ecclesiastical Contexts of Don Milani's 'Letter to the Military Chaplains'; Carmel Borg and Michael Grech
2. Peace and the Religions in a Changing World: From Consensus to Difference; Darren J. Dias
3. Vatican II's Teaching on Peace and War: A Contribution to Conciliar Hermeneutics; Michael Attridge
4. The Church as a Sacrament of the Future; Brian Wicker
PART II: PEACE, MEMORY AND EDUCATION
5. The History of World Peace in 100 Objects: Visualizing Peace in a Peace Museum; Peter Van Den Dungen
6. Responding to the call of Peace: In Memory of a Future that Might Have Been; Clive Zammit
7. Peace Education in a Culture of War; Antonia Darder
8. On Education, Negotiation and Peace; Marianna Papastephanou
9. From Conflict to Conflict Resolution: Teaching the History of Cyprus in the Buffer Zone; Isabelle Calleja Ragonesi
10. Beyond Reality Dissonance: Improving Sustainability of Peace Education Effects; Yigal Rosen
11. Because 'I Care': From an Encounter to a Political Option; Francois Mifsud
PART III: PEACE, DEMOCRACY, SEXUALITY, GENDER AND AESTHETICS
12. Peace Education and Critical Democracy: Some Challenges in Neoliberal Times; John P. Portelli
13. Does Democracy Promote Peace? A Rancière Reading of Politics and Democracy; Duncan P. Mercieca
14. Peace and Sexuality – Two Reflections; Mario Gerada, Clayton Mercieca and Diane Xuereb
15. On Art and Politics: Exploring the Philosophical Implications of the Creative Order of Art on the Organization of Social Relations; Mark Debono
16. Can We Learn from Comparing Violent Conflicts and Reconciliation Processes? For a Sociology of Conflict and Reconciliation Going Beyond Sociology; Nicos Trimikliniotis
17. The 'Modern' Muslim Woman in the Arab Peoples' Revolution of Freedom and Dignity; Nathalie Grima
Epilogue