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Released on 15 August 2022
JTPP’s Eighth Issue (Vol. 4, No. 2) focusses on the board theme of the vocation of the peacemaker; the modelling and encouraging the values of peace and restoration in a fractured/polarised world order.
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Contents
| Contributors | 3 |
| Editor-in-Chief’s Welcome and Introduction JEREMY A RINKER |
9 |
| ‘Dear Friend’: The Practice of Nonviolence in Gandhi’s Letters to Hitler KELLY RAE KRAEMER |
13 |
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Search for Peace by Analysing the Political Psychology of Berlin Wall Crossers |
33 |
| Empowering One Health Peacemakers
DIANA CHIGAS, DEBORAH KOCHEVAR, IAN JOHNSTONE and ELIZABETH MCCLINTOCK |
54 |
| Divergent Electoral Policy Preferences in the United States: Causes, Impacts, and Potential Solutions | 85 |
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Between Peaceful Coexistence and Realism: Understanding India’s Dilemma and Nuanced Position on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine |
106 |
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Kaleidoscope |
133 |
| Book Reviews | 137 |
Released on 21 February 2022
JTPP’s Seventh Issue (Vol. 4, No. 1) focusses on Health, Equity and Peacebuilding as its broad theme.
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| Our Contributors | 3 |
| Editors’ Welcome and Introduction JEREMY A RINKER |
7 |
| COVID-19 and Dreams of a Radical Re-visioning of Global Health Engagement JAMES R WALKER |
13 |
| Black is Beautiful and, also Traumatising: A Story of Everyday Trauma in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child G MICHELLE COLLINS-SIBLEY |
28 |
| Healing of the Divided Brain in a Divided World: Two Pandemics to Integrate JUNE GORMAN |
47 |
| The Question of Caste in the Time of Pandemic SANTI SARKAR |
75 |
| Do Insurance-based Health Policies Benefit the Poor? The Indian Experience SALONI & SUSHIL KUMAR |
93 |
| In Dialogue with a Public Intellectual: An Interview with | 113 |
| Kaleidoscope NILANJAN DUTTA |
121 |
| Book Review REKHA DATTA, TIMOTHY KAUER & CORINNE GUNTER | 124 |
Released on 15 August 2021
JTPP’s Sixth Issue (Vol. 3, No. 2) challenges the definition and role of intellectuals in the contemporary public sphere.
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Contents
| Our Contributors | 3 |
| Editors’ Welcome and Introduction JEREMY A RINKER |
7 |
| Young Peacebuilders Challenge Traditional Knowledge Creation KATRINA LECLERC & SHADI ROUHSHAHBAZ |
16 |
| Bridging Academia in the Global North and South: Challenges and Opportunities MARIA KARDASHEVSKAYA & AGUS HERU SETIAWAN |
41 |
| The Making of a Black Public Intellectual: A Progressive in the Academy KIMBERLY MAYFIELD LYNCH |
62 |
| Pan-African/Black Public Intellectuals as Beacons of Hope: Possibilities of Counterhegemonic Narratives in Higher Education ALEX OTIENO |
83 |
| Public Intellectuals in Private Universities: An Edenic Parable from India NANDINI DHAR |
109 |
| In Dialogue with a Young Public Intellectual
JTPP Editor’s Interview with Anti-caste Activist Dr Suraj Yengde |
132 |
| Kaleidoscope NILANJAN DUTTA |
138 |
| Book Review MARC CARON & MICHELLE COLLINS-SIBLEY | 142 |
| In Memoriam DR TERRY D BEITZEL (1967-2021) | 149 |
Released on 21 February 2021
JTPP’s fifth issue (Vol. 3, No. 1) deals with the complex interplay between healing and justice, especially addressing the relationship between achieving justice while also empowering both individual and collective healing.
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Contents
| Publisher’s Greetings ABHIJIT MAZUMDER |
4 |
| Our Contributors | 5 |
| Co-Editors’ Welcome and Introduction JEREMY A RINKER & DANIEL RHODES |
9 |
| Re-Defining Justice and Creating Pathways for Healing: The Limits of the US Legal System and the Promise of Politicised Healing as a Model for Redressing Racialised Harm DAVID ANDERSON HOOKER & SHEILA A BEDI |
17 |
| Photography Healing and Justice in Appalachia JOE COLE |
46 |
| Addressing Clerical Sexual Abuse through Restorative Justice: A Search for Empowerment and Collective Healing JONATHAN CHUKWUEMEKA MADU |
75 |
| Traditional Livelihoods and the Idea of Gender Justice: A Study of the Minority Women of Varanasi in the Area of Art and Craft SALONI & SUSHIL KUMAR |
96 |
| Embracing an Ecosocial Worldview for Climate Justice and Collective Healing SANDRA ENGSTROM & MEREDITH C F POWERS |
120 |
| Mapping Digital Justice: Across the Great Divide, Towards a Sanctuary for All RANDALL AMSTER |
145 |
| Kaleidoscope Curated by NILANJAN DUTTA |
167 |
| Book Review JUSTIN HARMON, JEREMY A RINKER & CATHRYNE SCHMITZ | 170 |
Released on 15 August 2020
JTPP’s fourth issue (Vol. 2, No. 2) examines, in exciting and innovative ways, the role of religion in conflict and peace, with transdisciplinary explorations of the complicated religious dynamics in social, cultural, and political life.
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Contents
| List of Contributors | 5 |
| Editor’s Welcome and Introduction JEREMY A RINKER |
10 |
| Is an Oath to Hitler also an Oath to God? The Debate about Loyalty Oaths in Germany: 1934-1945 EDMUND PRIES | 16 |
| Religious and Secular Forgiveness in the Contemporary World WIM LAVEN | 36 |
| The National Chief Imam of Ghana: Religious Leadership and Peacebuilding in an Emerging Democracy OKECHUKWU C IHEDURU | 66 |
| Interfaith Dialogue on Religious Tolerance and Peaceful Coexistence in Nigeria: Practitioners’ Experience BOSEDE AWODOLA & OLALEKAN A BABATUNDE |
99 |
| The Role of Religion in Building Terrains of Peace SHOMA CHOUDHURY LAHIRI, MIHO IWATA & BANDANA PURKAYASTHA |
119 |
| Role of Sunday Schools in Peace Education in Karachi, Pakistan MUNIR LALANI, SARFAROZ NIYOZOV & ASTER ASIF SARDAR | 143 |
| Promoting Cultures of Peace: Reflections on SokaGakkai International (SGI) Buddhism’s Contributions to Peacebuilding ALEX OTIENO |
170 |
| Engaged Buddhism Buddhist Nationalism Charges of Genocide towards Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar DANIEL RHODES | 194 |
| Kaleidoscope Curated by NILANJAN DUTTA |
218 |
| Book Review DANIEL RHODES | 221 |
Released on 30 January 2020
JTPP’s third issue is focused on exploring the limits of our current neoliberal capitalist ethos and cultural mindset. In this issue, one will find examples of peace researchers and activists challenging the realities of neoliberalism in the institutions of the media, on university campuses, and after natural disasters.
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Contents
| List of Contributors | 5 |
| Editor’s Welcome and Introduction JEREMY A RINKER |
10 |
| Mobilising Shared Strengths for Collective Peacebuilding with Newcomers MAUREEN K PORTER, NORBERT FRIETERS-REERMAN, STEPHANIE LANGLEY, SUSAN DAWKINS and ANKE REERMAN |
16 |
| A Pedagogy of Resistance: Reflections on Teaching Love and Indignation in a Neoliberal University RACHEL HALFRIDA CUNLIFFE | 39 |
| Transcending the ‘Neoliberal Self’ for Positive Peace: A New Balance between Individualism and Collectivism AYÇA DEMET ATAY |
64 |
| A Social Media Study of Neoliberal Populist Hegemony GAURAV SHAH |
82 |
| ‘We are More, and We are Not Afraid’—Puerto Rican Summer 2019 MARTHA QUIÑONES DOMÍNGUEZ |
105 |
| Excavating to Educate under Hidden Neoliberal Value Systems JUNE GORMAN |
130 |
| Resisting the Neoliberal University: Situating Resistance in Critical Pedagogy JUSTIN HARMON, JOE COLE, DANIEL RHODES & JEREMY A RINKER |
155 |
| Kaleidoscope Curated by NILANJAN DUTTA |
178 |
| Book Review DANIEL RHODES & SCOTTY PETERSON |
181 |
Released on 21 July 2019
JTPP’s second issue deals with the true human costs of social conflict on institutions, communities, and the public good which seem to be slowly eroding in the current era of populist and authoritarian politics the world over.
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Contents
| List of Contributors | 5 |
| Editor’s Welcome and Introduction Dr Jeremy Rinker, Assistant Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Peace & Conflict Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA |
9 |
| The ‘Normality’ of Social Conflicts: Why Post-War Political Instability Might (Sometimes) be a Good Thing Dr Kathia Légaré, Professor (Part-Time), Saint-Paul University, Ottawa, Canada |
15 |
| Science and Art of Peace Dr Samir Kumar Das, Professor of Political Science, University of Calcutta, India |
32 |
| Human Costs in Cleavage-Based Politics in the United States Dr Stephen J Chapman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Monmouth University, USA |
52 |
| When the Local is Global: Critical Pedagogy as Practice Dr Daniel Rhodes, Director, Undergraduate Social Work Programme, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA |
75 |
| Human Costs of Conflict in Nigeria: Roles and Responsibilities of Stakeholders Dr Bosede Awodola, Head, National Peace Academy & Chief Research Fellow, Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Nigeria |
98 |
| Human Costs of Reconciliation on South African Women in the South African Freedom (or Anti-Apartheid) Movement Dr Narissa Ramdhani, Director, Ifa Lethu Foundation, South Africa & Director, Resource Mobilisation, Vaal University of Technology, South Africa |
118 |
| (Re)Claiming Human Dignity Dr Amanda Smith Byron, Associate Professor in Conflict Resolution, Portland State University, USA |
138 |
| Restoring Trust in the Self through Failure: An Exploration of Singing as Reflective Practice and its Role in Nonviolent Social Change Dr Lauren Michelle Levesque, Assistant Professor, Providence School of Transformative Leadership and Spirituality, Saint-Paul University, Ottawa, Canada |
154 |
| Kaleidoscope Curated by Nilanjan Dutta, Associate Editor, JTPP |
174 |
| Book Review Nilanjan Dutta & Noor Ghazi, PhD Candidate in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA |
178 |
Released on 30 January 2019
In the inaugural issue, the complex conflictual themes and relational dynamics exposed by human’s ongoing late capitalist environmental degradation have been explored.
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Contents
| List of Contributors | 3 |
| Editor’s Welcome and Introduction JEREMY RINKER, Assistant Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Peace & Conflict Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA |
7 |
| Environmental Degradation: Communities Forging a Path Forward LACEY M. SLOAN, Associate Professor in Social Work, University of Vermont, USA & CATHRYNE L. SCHMITZ, Professor Emeritus in Social Work, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA |
13 |
| Peering through Frames at Conflict and Change:Transition in the Los Angeles Urban Water System MARCIA HALE, Assistant Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA & STEPHANIE PINCETL, Founding Director and Professor-in-Residence, California Centre for Sustainable Communities at University of California at Loss Angeles, USA |
39 |
| Farmers Facing Climate Change in Southern Zambia RICHARD ‘DREW’ MARCANTONIO, Ph.D. candidate in Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Anthropology Department, University of Notre Dame, USA, & CATHERINE BOLTEN, Associate Professor in Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, USA |
61 |
| Gas Flaring, Environmental Degradation and Community Agitation in West Africa VANDY KANYAKO, Assistant Professor in Conflict Resolution Programme, Portland State University, USA |
85 |
| The Batak Toba Women: Why Radical Rightful Resistance? MARIA KARDASHEVSKAYA, Ph.D. candidate in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada |
105 |
| Killing Time: Environmental Crimes and the Restoration of the Future RANDALL AMSTER, Professor & Head, Justice & Peace Studies; Environmental Studies, Georgetown University, USA |
131 |
| Neoliberal Bio-politics and the Animal Question GWEN HUNNICUTT, Associate Professor in Sociology, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA |
151 |
| Recognising the Role Eco-grief Plays in Responding to Environmental Degradation SANDRA ENGSTROM, Lecturer in Social Work, University of Stirling, Scotland |
168 |
| Kaleidoscope Curated by NILANJAN DUTTA, Associate Editor, JTPP |
187 |
| Book Review BANDANA PURKAYASTHA, Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut, USA & KOYEL KHAN, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology Department, University of Connecticut, USA |
191 |
