From Pacification to Peacebuilding: A Call to Global Transformation

Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Vision And Engagement; 2. Ongoing Development; 3. Dilemmas And Limitations; 4. Peacebuilding And Pacification; 5. Caught In Two Systems: Co-Option Or; 6. Building The Praxis Of Nonviolence; 7. Challenging The System; 8. Agenda For Humanity; Bibliography; Index.

Diana Francis has been described as one of the most experienced practitioners of conflict resolution. She is a former President of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and Chair of the Committee for Conflict Transformation Support. Her previous books, People, Peace and Power and Rethinking War and Peace are published by Pluto Press.

... a timely and welcome contribution to an emerging literature which insists on a concept and practice of peace making that is liberating and empowering. -- Professor, Tom Woodhouse, Adam Curle Chair in Conflict Resolution, University of Bradford Diana Francis reminds us of the values and energy that prompt the best in us, which get lost in settling for expectations like pacification rather than peace. If conflict transformation is itself to be transformed and flourish, it will be along the lines she urges here. -- Sue Williams, Director, Summer Peacebuilding Institute, Eastern Mennonite University, USA In this visionary analysis Diana Francis offers a practical route out of the brutal cycle of war and violence, which breaks with the sterile ineffectuality of top down approaches. She puts the power where it can really make the difference: with the people. -- Kate Hudson, Chair of CND, the UK,s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Diana Francis has done it again - another practical book mapping the road from peaceful aspirations to peaceful reality. -- Bruce Kent, Founding Chair and Vice President of the Movement for the Abolition of War. This latest book is a timely and welcome contribution to an emerging literature which insists on a concept and practice of peace making that is liberating and empowering and that is inspired by the qualities of good analysis, imagination and optimism that characterise the work of this outstanding theorist and activist. -- Professor Tom Woodhouse, Adam Curle Chair in Conflict Resolution, University of Bradford Diana Francis's profound reflections on the conflict transformation field will be an inspiration to aspiring peace workers everywhere. -- Professor Hugh Miall, Professor of International Relations, University of Kent. 'Diana Francis raises questions that challenge and ensures that questions of values (and morality) are never allowed to sink beneath the weight of policy and programme imperatives., -- Professor Andrew Rigby, Centre