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This chapter is directly concerned with Buddhist contributions to environmental responsibility as ethics and culture and links environmentalism with peace studies and most importantly, realizing that we are confronted with a multi-faceted crisis. In fact, it has been mentioned that “peace researches now agree that peace is no more a stable state to be reached at the end of the tunnel, but a composite of dynamic interactions demanding continued striving because of the constantly changing conditions of all the forces/factors involved (Yeh, International Journal of Buddhist Studies 11(1):104, 2006). Debates over ‘sustainability’ by the competing factors of ecology, economy, ethics, and most important, human wellbeing calls for a ‘dialectical model’ in addition to the analytical objective methods used in social sciences (de Silva, The psychology of Buddhism in conflict studies, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 24, 2017).
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de Silva, P. (2022). Environmental Philosophy of Buddhism. In: Sherma, R.D., Bilimoria, P. (eds) Religion and Sustainability: Interreligious Resources, Interdisciplinary Responses. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79301-2_23
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