The Palgrave international handbook of peace studies: a cultural perspective

Introduction / Wolfgang Dietrich

1. Beyond the gates of Eden: trans-rational peaces / Wolfgang Dietrich

2. Peace: the European narrative / Karlheinz Koppe

3. Pax: a Mediterranean perspective / Francisco Muñoz and Beatriz Molina

4. Peace: a western European perspective . Nigel Young

5. Friđr: a northern European perspective / Elida K. Undrum Jacobson

6. Shalom: a Jewish perspective / Marc H. Ellis

7. Shalom/Salaam: a personal Palestinian perspective / Munir Fasheh

8. Salaam: a Muslim perspective / Aurangzeb Haneef

9. Salaam: a Sufi perspective / Uzma Rehman

10. Salaam: an Alevilik perspective / Alev Çakır

11. Shanti: an Indian Perspective / Swami Veda Bharati

12. Shi wa: a Vajrayana Buddhist perspective / Karma Lekshe Tsomo

13. He Ping: a Confucian perspective / Kam-Por Yu

14. Haiwa: a Shinto perspective / Ikuro Anzai

15. Buddhism and the world peace / Johan Galtung

16. He Taura Whiri: a Maori perspective / Peter Horsley

17. Skennen: a North American Indian perspective / Pat Lauderdale

18. Kayanerekowa: a Mohawk perspective / Robert Vachon

19. Guelaguetza and Tu Chha'ia: a Zapotec perspective of what others call friendship / Gustavo Esteva and Arturo Guerrero

20. Thaq: an Andean-Amazonian perspective / Grimaldo Rengifo V.

21. Nengelaasekhammalhcoo: an Enhlet perspective / Hannes Kalish

22. Asomdwoe : a West African perspective / Kofi Asare Opoku

23. T'ùmmu: an East African perspective / Belachew Gebrewold

24. African Salaam / Amadou Lamine Sarr

25. Mahatma Ghandi's concept of peace: a grandson's perspective / Arun Ghandi

26. Ghaffar Khan: Gautama Buddha of Hashtnagar / Syed Sikander Mehdi

27. The inward revolution: Aurobindo Ghose and Jiddu Krishnamurti / Samrat Schmiem Kumar

28. Peaces, a gift of grace, turned into modern horror: Ivan Illich visionary of the twentieth century / Martina Kaller-Dietrich

29. Pagans and nomads: the postmodern peaces of Jean-François Lyotard and Gilles Deleuze / Norbert Koppensteiner

30. Ngügï wa Thiong'o: listening for peace and resilience in Africa from Makerere 1962 to Asmara 2000 / Astier M. Almedom

31. Intercultural inspiration: the life and work of Raimon Panikkar / Gustavo Esteva

32. Gregory Bateson: a practitioner's perspective / Victoria Fontan

Conclusion / Josefina Echavarría, Daniela Ingruber and Norbert Koppensteiner.