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Weaving a Culture of Peace

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The twenty-first century opened with a challenge from the United Nations General Assembly, issued at the behest of the then living Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, which urged all peoples and their government officials to work together at the local, regional, national, and international levels to promote a culture of peace and nonviolence for all of the children of the world (United Nations Statement, 1999; http://decade, 2019). Rather than achieving this culture of peace, we have instead witnessed throughout the early decades of the twenty-first century horrific acts of racial injustice, terrorism, genocide, protracted wars, and the escalating destruction of our ecosystem. Receiving less media attention, and therefore less known to most of us, effective nonviolent efforts important for creating and sustaining a culture of peace are taking place throughout the world as people on all continents seek both to re-imagine and to create a culture of peace with justice for everyone.

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  1. Peacemaking Associates, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Jacqueline Haessly

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  1. Ntl. Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies, University of Otago Ntl. Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Katerina Standish

  2. National Centre for Peace, University of Otago National Centre for Peace, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

    Heather Devere

  3. Ntl. Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies, University of Otago Ntl. Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Adan Suazo

  4. Ntl. Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies, University of Otago Ntl. Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies, Dunedin, New Zealand

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Haessly, J. (2021). Weaving a Culture of Peace. In: Standish, K., Devere, H., Suazo, A., Rafferty, R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3877-3_58-1

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